Policy

The League of European Research Universities (LERU) has appointed Professor Kurt Deketelaere as its new Secretary-General.

The leading Bulgarian think tank, the Applied Research and Communications Fund, has published its fifth annual innovation policy appraisal report.

The UK research charity, the Wellcome Trust, is joining MIT to launch a fellowship scheme to promote interdisciplinary science.

The UK is projected to have a £4 billion fall in R&D spend in 2009, according to a new report published by the Management Consultancies Association.

The German research foundation (DFG) is to extend funding for its collaborative research Excellence Initiative institutions in Bremen, Karlsruhe and Würzburg.

It’s no great revelation that the biotech funding model is broken, yet the market for the industry’s drugs has never been greater. So where is the fix, asks Nuala Moran.

Some entrepreneurs are born not made. But for the rest, entrepreneurship needs to become a part of formal education, says the World Economic Forum.

The UK government has announced a £750 million fund to help companies through the recession, with £250 million reserved for green technologies.