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The new EU-sponsored university league table launched on the 13 May, puts emphasis in unusual places and looks to be drawing conclusions based on low samples, says Per-Anders Östling

The ‘radical’ parties gain ground in Euro elections – but their impact depends on how well they organise themselves in Brussels

The term innovation ecosystem is more than a convenient description. The means by which ecosystems are formed and developed provide a practical model for reshaping Europe’s innovation processes, says Didier Schmitt

While it has a high reputation for the quality of its basic medical research, Poland lacks the means to translate this into the clinic. International collaboration is needed to help build this infrastructure

With the changing of the guard in Brussels imminent, Europe’s manufacturing industries are calling for serious thinking on energy in the next half decade

Science|Business pores over the contents of the main party groupings’ short manifestos, finding common goals and little appetite for controversy

Alternative system eschews traditional rankings, allowing students to select their own personal top list based on their study interests

The rising tide of drug-resistant infections and dearth of new antibiotics calls for the same kind of urgency and action as the HIV/AIDs epidemic, says Laura Piddock, founder of Antibiotic Action

Digital seabed mapping and skills gap analysis are among the main initiatives that the Commission hopes will boost innovation in the maritime economy

After the first launch in April, the European Space Agency’s new Copernicus earth observation system has just begun to beam back images. This will be a spur for innovation, says project coordinator Josef Aschbacher

With the honourable exception of digital technologies, science and innovation policies have not featured in the campaign for the EU’s top job

SESAR is moving into a new phase, in which the public-private partnership will begin implementation of air traffic management technologies defined and developed in research spanning 2007 – 2013. The project has Horizon 2020 funding of €600M

Europe’s universities warn that new restrictions on the use of personal data will undermine important health and medical research

It’s more than 8 years late and cost more than twice the original budget. But the Wendelstein machine to be unveiled this month provides fresh momentum for fusion research and will complement the ITER project

The economic significance of patents ranges from impacts on growth and global trade, to patent portfolio management within firms. The EU could do more to extract value from its patent store, says Theon van Dijk, Chief Economist, European Patent Office