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The fragmentation of the venture capital market is hampering Europe’s tech industry, says Science|Business editor Richard L. Hudson

The Mediterranean Association for Science Advancement and Dissemination held its inaugural meeting earlier this week at the Città della Scienza in Naples, Italy.

Microsoft’s Jean-Philippe Courtois thinks Europe is an innovative place. But, he says, there are some clear gaps.

It’s easy to produce papers and make recommendations, says former Finnish prime minister Esko Aho. Now we need practical results.

Europe’s companies increasingly recognise that they need to switch from fierce protection to licensing widely to generate revenues.

Unilever is restructuring of its Foods R&D organisation in Europe, concentrating its efforts into just six centres of excellence.

An international partnership has started to build a large-scale public infrastructure for sharing research information across Europe.

Just over half of Europe’s scientifically qualified work force is female, but fewer than one in three of Europe’s professional scientists and technologists are women...

European companies are set to increase their investment in R&D by 5 per cent per annum over the next three years, closing the gap with US counterparts.

Spend more on basic research - that's one of the prescriptions for Europe offered by Jim Goodnight, founder and CEO of SAS, one of the world's largest privately held software companies.