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Despite the banking crisis, Iceland has maintained its top position in the innovation rankings published by the French business school INSEAD.

Closer links are needed to ensure a coherent policy approach and to achieve the goal of developing a European-wide knowledge economy, says a new report.

A new ‘vision’ from Brussels offers something for everyone – including research and innovation. But in the end, it comes off as empty rhetoric.

Karl Tryggvason, former Dean of Research at Karolinska, admits a ‘mistake’ but tells Science|Business it wasn’t a sacking offence.

After 7 years of deliberation, the European Commission is to authorise the Amflora genetically modified potato to be cultivated for industrial purposes.

The Administrative Council of the European Patent Office has elected Benoît Battistelli as its new President.

The top 1000 UK companies invested more than £26 billion on developing new products, services and improving productivity in 2008.

A new study shows that the costs associated with a single new crop pest or disease agent have increased by 68.4 per cent in the past decade.