Science|Business Reporting

Biotech and pharma companies have overtaken the technology sector in the European Commission’s annual scoreboard of R&D investment for the first time.

The European Commission wants to remove the stigma of bankruptcy and give entrepreneurs a second chance.

The Green Paper on the formation of a European Research Area attracted more than 800 responses by the time the consultation came to an end this week.

The UK is to back up a review of science and innovation policy by former science minister David Sainsbury with £1 billion over the next three years to boost business innovation and technology development.

Imperial College London’s former deputy rector, Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, is the new chief executive of the Medical Research Council.