R&D

Valerie Pécresse, Research and Higher Education minister, reveals her agenda to Science|Business.

Computer firm HP has re-structured its HP Labs research division ito focus efforts on fewer, bigger projects, and to speed up the process of tech transfer.

The latest Eurostat data show Europe is not delivering on the Lisbon targets. So what is to be done, asks Bruno van Pottelsberghe from the think tank Bruegel.

One of Europe’s leading mobile network equipment suppliers is to transfer its product engineering and R&D services to the Indian IT company.

Planning permission has been granted for the development of 70 acres of land next to Addenbrooke’s Hospital on the southern fringe of Cambridge to provide 2.3 million sq ft of biomedical research and development facilities.

The European Research Council was inundated with around three times the expected number of applications for its first ever call for proposals, which closed last week.

Booz Allen Hamilton’s second annual global innovation survey promises to continue last year's debate on the link between R&D spending and corporate performance.

This time it is a major drugs company that is setting up its fume cupboards in China.

The latest UK R&D Scoreboard says that company spending went up by £2 billion last year.

Once considered synonymous with British manufacturing prowess, ICI has announced a major investment in R&D in China.