Higher education

Fewer taxes and more university spin-outs are needed to help maintain Denmark’s position among EU innovators.

Despite a range of harsh public spending cuts, the Irish government is set to increase spending research in 2011.

Research spending goes up in 2011 and projects funded by stimulus money are in progress. But the government needs to show R&D is worth it.

With 11 new centres to begin at the start of 2011, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft brings the total number of its Collaborative Research Centres up to 238.

Peter Sloot, a professor at Amsterdam University, is to lead a new laboratory in Russia, as the government looks to halt the ‘brain drain’ and attract leading researchers.

It's a 10% cut in real terms, but UK science wins the argument over its contribution to economic growth.