Richard L. Hudson

As an expert panel urges better EU handling of scientific data, Commissioner Kroes suggests Framework funding should also take account of it.

GE’s $200M call for entrepreneurs to bring their smart grid technologies is also a challenge to the whole system of research, development and innovation in Europe.

Personalising medicine will improve healthcare and create important new markets. Europe needs to move now and seize the benefits it offers, writes Richard L. Hudson.

A contest between Australia and South Africa over the world’s biggest radio telescope highlights the economic impact of ‘Big Science’.

A new ‘vision’ from Brussels offers something for everyone – including research and innovation. But in the end, it comes off as empty rhetoric.

As planning for a new EU research effort begins, many are calling for changes in the way the system works, writes Richard L. Hudson.

As hearings begin in Brussels on a new European Commission, we offer four simple questions for the nominees involved in research and innovation.

The reshuffling of EU portfolios brings ‘innovation’ to the policy fore – but we are waiting for details (if they exist) of how it will all work, write Richard L. Hudson and Nuala Moran.

The economic crisis is forcing a rethink, on both sides of the Atlantic, on the scope for collaboration in R&D.

A fundamental shift in EU policy for R&D and innovation is in the works this year – but will it make Europe more innovative, asks Richard L. Hudson.