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Despite some progress, women are still under-represented in science, according to the latest survey on Gender Equality in Science.

The rate of growth of R&D spending fell to 6.9 per cent, and worse is to come as the economic crisis bites further into budgets.

EU institutions need a common analysis of long-term trends as basis for policy, says MEP James Elles in an interview with Science|Business.

An overview of some of the recommendations discussed at the Science Business Policy Bridge event "Research and Innovation: what's next in Brussels?", held in Brussels on 6 November.

Is a European Innovation Act what’s needed to strengthen growth and competitiveness? Or is it a tactic to divert attention away from the failure of the Lisbon agenda?

The central priority of the EU’s new Innovation Policy should be utilising research “rapidly and powerfully” for societal and development benefit, say business leaders in a new report.

Two Framework Programme 6 (FP6) schemes specifically devised to promote the development of the European Research Area failed to deliver, according to a new report.

Strengthen research policy and step up the building of the European Research Area, Janez Potočnik tells ministers as he comes to the end his term as Commissioner

As his presidency is renewed, José Manuel Barroso says he wants to appoint a chief scientist with a brief to oversee matters scientific across the Commission.

At €229 billion, R&D funding in Europe was unchanged from 2006 to 2007, and still has far to go to hit the Lisbon target of 3 per cent of GDP by 2010.