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International designers and dozens of universities across the UK are to consider how to pool their expertise to develop high-tech products and processes.

Peer reviewed grants may not be the best way to deliver breakthrough research, says Microsoft’s Craig Mundie. Change is needed for Framework Programme 8.

Dundee University in Scotland is ranked top in the world for the impact of its pharmacology research, says a new league table.

The Rhine-Main-Neckar region around Frankfurt is Europe’s leading software cluster with €12.5 billion in software-related revenues, says a new survey.

Industrial biotechnology company Bioamber has announced the successful start-up and commissioning of the world’s first bio-based succinic acid plant.

In 2009, 447 Israeli high-tech companies raised $1.12 billion from local and foreign venture investors, 46 per cent below 2008 levels.

The EVA consortium has submitted a proposal, coordinated by the city of Rotterdam, to advance the use of electric vehicles across Europe.

Otaniemi is now home to Finland’s Nanomicroscopy Centre. Set up to research both nanomaterials and biomaterials, it is one of the largest of its kind in Europe.

The body responsible for planning Europe’s electronic infrastructures for the research community is inviting comments on the present version of its roadmap.

A new centre for virtual engineering to support the aerospace sector is to be set up at Daresbury Laboratory in Cheshire.