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Globalisation makes national industrial policies obsolete, the Commission says in a new industrial strategy.

The financial crisis continued to take a bite of R&D investment by Europe’s largest companies in 2009, with investment falling by 2.6 per cent.

The recent death of ‘fractal’ scientist Benoit Mandelbrot highlights the importance of having plenty of cross-disciplinary ‘agitators’ in our age of specialised big science.

A new €60 million biomedical research centre opened in Barcelona earlier this month, after a €15 million philanthropic donation got the project off the ground.

BioRegio STERN Management has won the second competition for strengthening regional clusters in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

PARADIGM, an international R&D project to standardise the development and production of optical chips, has begun.

Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft is to set up a biotechnology laboratory in Chile, its first research centre in South America, following an agreement with the Chilean government.

The UK government has given the go-ahead to £200 million programme to develop technology and innovation centres modelled on Germany’s Fraunhofer Centres.

Europe’s research and technology organisations make an annual economic impact of up to €40 billion, but, says a new report, they are not getting the recognition they deserve.