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One moment environmental poster child, the next grim reaper. It’s time to draw breath and plan for the appropriate, sustainable use of biofuels, says Science|Business’s Nuala Moran.

A new government policy paper puts the emphasis on public procurement, lead markets and a more international approach.

There was no headway towards the Lisbon target of spending 3 per cent of GDP on R&D, according to the latest figures from Eurostat.

It may be a cheap imitation of the original vision, but Europe’s answer to MIT goes ahead. Now wait for the wrangling on where to site it.

The European Commission has ordered Italy to pay back €270M of loans for aeronautics R&D after rules on state aid were broken.

Valerie Pécresse, Research and Higher Education minister, reveals her agenda to Science|Business.

DePuy Inc, the company that claims to have pioneered the hip replacement, is to set up an Innovation Centre with backing from the Irish Development Agency.

The Psychiatric Research Institute of Neuroscience (PsyRing) in Glasgow, Scotland, is on a commercialisation drive.

The latest Eurostat data show Europe is not delivering on the Lisbon targets. So what is to be done, asks Bruno van Pottelsberghe from the think tank Bruegel.