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Spin-out Liquid Light builds on research results that languished in the lab for 10 years – reverse combustion process produces methanol from CO2. Next step: industrial scale production.

Is a frozen “rollover” budget for 2013 and beyond now likely? MEPs debate the EU budget at a Science|Business event, as negotiations between Parliament and Council collapse

Interview with Professor David Zilberman, professor of agricultural and resource economics at the University of California, Berkeley and principal investigator at the UC Berkeley Energy Biosciences Institute

Research bodies and industry groups have joined Europe’s top scientists in calls to deliver on the proposal to increase the R&D budget to €80 billion

Research counters public criticism on ‘inefficiency.’ Risks of intermittent power have been overstated and projected wind power levels for 2020 do not require major system adaptation. Technology can provide solutions to tap greater amounts of wind power.

The European Parliament has called for a “significant increase” in EU research and innovation funding, making a veiled threat to veto the EU’s long-term budget if member states try to cut European R&D funding

While there is an obvious strong case for such programs on both sides of the Atlantic, companies operating internationally must take into account important differences.

As EU countries struggle to get CSS off the ground, a new British project is to develop and demonstrate advanced carbon capture technology for gas-fired power stations

Europe needs its SMEs to drag it out of economic crisis, but most are operating below their 2008 levels. Now the Commission is promising to get them growing with “the most ambitious action plan to boost entrepreneurship Europe has ever seen”

As lawmakers in Brussels frantically look for ways to break the stalemate over the Single EU patent, Science|Business takes a closer look at the political and legal dispute