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The European Research Area Board will focus on the EU's new research funding programme.

Governments worldwide spent fortunes on R&D and innovation as part of economic stimulus packages. What will happen in 2011, now austerity is à la mode and the taps are turning off?

Although somewhat tamed by the economic crisis, the 'Celtic Tiger' kept winning winning significant foreign investment in 2010.

Spotlight on chemistry in 2011 to highlight achievements and contributions to solving Grand Challenges.

Brazil joins the European space observatory project, opening up opportunities for its astronomers and high-tech industry.

A year after they were announced, the three launch projects of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology have agreement on grants and structures.

After years of delay the Single Patent is moving ahead. But some Member States are still refusing to join in.

Fewer taxes and more university spin-outs are needed to help maintain Denmark’s position among EU innovators.

Marion Dewar, responsible for innovation policy in the cabinet of Research Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, sets out the vision for the Innovation Union.

A new report calls for greater collaboration between industry and academia to make Europe a global leader in the €2.8 billion global marine biotechnology industry.

The EPO rules that producing plants by sexually crossing whole plant genomes is not patentable.

Despite a range of harsh public spending cuts, the Irish government is set to increase spending research in 2011.