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Can it make commercial sense for companies to charge head-on into large-scale problems like climate change, ageing or energy supplies? Yes, according to Dow Corning.

As it takes an axe to quangos from education to health, the UK government is laying plans for a new single body to supervise clinical trials.

Public spending on research has to stand up to rigorous economic scrutiny said the UK’s new Science Minister David Willetts, in a recent speech.

Europe’s chemical companies are pioneering enzymes to turn plant waste into fuel. But the technology is being exploited elsewhere.

Commissioner Maire Geoghegan-Quinn has announced the EU’s biggest annual research budget ever for 2011 - at €6.4 billion - with a pledge to make the money easier to access.

The ERC has announced its fourth call for proposals for ERC Starting Grants, open to early-career top researchers of any nationality.

Times may be hard, but it remains possible to be innovative, Henry Chesbrough, the father of Open Innovation and ESADE Visiting Professor, tells Science|Business.