Richard L. Hudson

The EU’s top R&D administrator gives a preview of changes ahead for 2008 – including plans to increase the mobility of researchers.

President Ralph Eichler has plans for growth and change at the top continental university – with a due measure of Swiss caution.

Science|Business launches a series of news and events to prompt debate on a vital policy question: How do you encourage enterprise in science?

Want to improve R&D policy? The European Commission is creating a new advisory panel. Send in your nominations.

What is the best way for the EU to spend its R&D money? An unusual debate at the European Commission provides insights.

A call for new ideas to shake up the Brussels policy world.

On its second anniversary, the Science|Business news network is launching the Policy Bridge, an independent channel for news and events dedicated to EU innovation and R&D policy.

Despite the Nobel-induced champagne now flowing in Berlin, Jülich, Paris and Cardiff, the fact remains that Europe has a fundamental problem in the quality of its science.

Stockholm’s biomedical university is looking to double its seed capital to get discoveries to market, according to President Harriet Wallberg-Henriksson.

Managing clinical trials is, for the pharmaceutical industry, a growing headache in Europe. One key to the problem: the teaching hospital.