Science|Business Reporting

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.

The academic ‘father’ of open innovation is launching a European forum for it, in collaboration with the Science|Business Innovation Board. Henry Chesbrough discusses the European challenges.

Past winners of Academic Enterprise Awards are making progress in the commercialisation of their research

Europe needs a fresh cycle of innovation to create a more “reactive economy” that can absorb shocks and bounce back, the European Education Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou tells the Science|Business European Entrepreneurship Summit

The EIT launches its first awards – ACES enters its fourth year. Start-ups from the UK and Germany lead the list of winners, which also includes Spanish and Hungarian companies.

Alan Leshner, CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, caused a stir at February’s EU ministerial conference in Copenhagen, with a hard-hitting speech on the state of US science. America's scientific eminence, 'is at risk' he said.

In total, 8,900 small companies have won grants worth €2.4B