Science|Business Reporting

Current weak economic recovery will likely lead to continued sluggish growth in R&D spending by firms, says a new OECD report

While northern and western European countries cut it in the top ranks of this year’s Global Competitiveness Report, those in the south are losing ground

Top EU businesses expect their investments in research and development to grow by an average of 4 percent annually over the period 2012 to 2014

Europe’s largest general science meeting introduces special one day ticket for its policy programme

Forty years’ horse trading has ended in a eurofudge, as EU heads of state have agreed on a compromise proposal to split the court that will litigate the EU Unitary Patent between Paris, Munich and London

Original research looking at the barriers to deployment of personalised healthcare conducted in a collaboration managed by Science|Business have now been published in a peer-review journal

The UK’s big guns of medical research have united with patients’ group to pre-empt the expected call by some MEPs to end funding of human embryonic stem cell research, when the plan for Horizon 2020 is debated in the European Parliament

A member of the Science|Business Innovation Board and the former president of Poland are to follow former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko's court proceedings

After long and hard negotiations, science ministers have given their approval to the proposal to reconfigure EU research around seven Grand Challenges

Henry Chesbrough, leading scholar of ‘open innovation’, to form European Innovation Forum to improve the management of innovation in Europe. In collaboration with ESADE Business School and Science|Business Innovation Board.