European Union

Janez Potočnik, European Commissioner for Science and Research, has met with the experts due to carry out the review of the European Research Council (ERC).

The European Commission will not raise objections under EC Treaty state aid rules to the support that France plans to give its Solar Nano Crystal programme.

The chairman of the fledgling EIT has told Science|Business that KIC applicants with one sole geographical location are unlikely to be picked.

A group of European entrepreneurs and academics meet to compare notes on the problems of patenting in a global marketplace.

In a WSJ Europe article, two members of the Science|Business innovation board, J. Frank Brown and Jean-Philippe Courtois, discuss the way forward for Europe.

India's Council of Scientific and Industrial Research and the EPO have made a deal allowing the EPO to access India's Traditional Knowledge Digital Library.

It's as good as official. Spreading R&D investment thinly across Europe makes no economic sense, according to a report by the European Investment Bank.

European academia could lose as much as it might gain from the creation of the European Institute for Innovation and Technology, says Chalmers’ Karin Markides.

Cynics say it merely wants to curry favour with the European Union, but Intel’s revamp of its labs is a convincing model for corporate engagement in R&D, writes Nuala Moran.