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The scientists’ organisation Euroscience has welcomed the European Commission’s Green paper on the European Research Area – but raised concerns about aspects of the consultative procedures.

Imperial College London’s former deputy rector, Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, is the new chief executive of the Medical Research Council.

PepsiCo’s $5.2 million donation to look at lifestyle and chronic disease looks like an act of the archest cynicism. But someone needs to do something, says Nuala Moran.

Flagship venture capitalist David Berry takes a hands-on approach to finding and nurturing emerging ideas and companies in life sciences and clean energy.

A €15.3 million fund has been launched to strengthen research cooperation between Norway and Poland in the fields of environment and health.

Nordforsk, the funding agency of the Nordic Council of Ministers, has funded the coordination of a network on biomedical imaging.

Plans to create a European Research Area put too much stress on research and not enough on innovation, says the Eureka secretariat.

The UK Conservative Party has joined the tidal wave of opinion arguing that the European Union needs to use its public procurement budget to drive innovation.

A new database is designed to boost cooperation between researchers across the European Union and eastern Europe.

The UK government has opened a public consultation on proposals to introduce fast-track processing services for patent and trade mark applications.

The European Parliament gave its formal blessing to the launch of a new pan-European technology institute next year – but insisted that it include “innovation” in the title.

The technology transfer arm of Imperial College London reported rapid growth in its investment portfolio in its first full year as a publicly traded company.