Science|Business Reporting

Janez Potočnik, European Commissioner for Science and Research, has met with the experts due to carry out the review of the European Research Council (ERC).

The EU is funding a one year programme, Nanomed, to stake out the potential applications of nanomedicine and inform the investments it makes through FP7.

The Steinbeis-Transfer-Institute for Intellectual Property Management has developed a set of indicators of the commercial viability of collaborative life-science projects.

The European Commission will not raise objections under EC Treaty state aid rules to the support that France plans to give its Solar Nano Crystal programme.

National Rectors’ Conferences have been reporting on the situation facing their universities in the current economic climate. The results have been mixed.