A short volume of statistical data supports the IEA's big report on renewable energy.

A new report demands more action on renewable energy. Maybe this time around there really will be some opportunities to make money through innovation.

Agilent Labs reckons that it still supports "the values that have made Dave Packard and Bill Hewlett’s company a success". At least they have a stab at telling us what they do.

An academic finds that basic research comes in various shades of purity, and that scientists can change their use of the term in mid sentence.

Overcoming the familiar barriers to public learning and understanding of science is focus of new research professorship established by the Hasselblad Foundation jointly at Chalmers University of Technology and Göteborg University in Göteborg, Sweden.

Multinationals have a new weapon in the innovation race: technology scouts. These people scan the globe looking for the next big thing.

Czechoslovakia’s development authorities are to win a reputation for the country as a magnet for emerging biotech.

Everyone wants to encourage innovation. But, says Alain de Serres from the OECD, a survey of the world’s leading industrial countries shows they are going about it in different ways and with very different results.

It is one thing to recognise the need to manage intellectual property like any other strategic resource. But it is quite another to install the systems and devise the processes for doing it.