Science|Business Reporting

The European Institute of Innovation & Technology is looking to recruit a specialist team to drive its entrepreneurial activities forward

Life sciences continues to attract the most money, as venture capital investment in Israel rises by 39 per cent in the first quarter

Two new vice president have been elected to serve until the end of Framework Programme 7 in 2013

Construction has begun of the world’s first commercial-scale facility for making ethanol from the straw - rather than the grain - of wheat and other crop plants

The Commission is making a renewed push to increase the use of information technology in healthcare and wants views on how to do this

The German electronics giant demonstrates a system for inductive charging of electric vehicles without the need for wires or plugs, and announces a live test to begin in Berlin.

Great Britain wants the next Framework Research Programme to work alongside the structural and cohesion funds

Swiss watchmaker Patek Philippe will fund a professor and a research team at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.

The number of trademark applications received in 2010 by the World International Property Organisation have increased by 12.8 per cent compared to the year before

The funders of the telescope have established a founding board and selected Jodrell Bank Observatory, Manchester, UK to host the project office