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Professor Mike Tyers of Toronto University has been appointed Director of the Scottish Universities Life Sciences Alliance.

Queen’s University Belfast has launched a scheme to encourage more students to study scientific and technical subjects.

Reinhard Grunwald has resigned as Secretary General of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. The new Secretary General is Dorothee Dzwonnek .

National research funding and grant giving bodies should be given more prominence in the European Commission’s plans to create the European Research Area, say research council heads and the European Science Foundation.

Systems biology involves a fundamental change in approach to biological research. Is Europe ready to handle it?

It may come near the top of international rankings for its innovation performance, but Nokia’s top research manager thinks Denmark still needs to do better.

Others in Europe may envy the UK’s professionalised approach to tech transfer via a band of quoted commercialisation companies. But does it work?

China needs a better return on its fast-rising investments in R&D and higher education if it is to become an “innovation-oriented” economy by 2020, OECD.