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UCD appoints vice president for Innovation

Mark Keane has been appointed Vice President for Innovation at University College Dublin, with a brief to be the focal point for knowledge transfer, entrepreneurship and external partnerships.

EU gives nod to state aid for OSIRIS

The European Commission has authorised €31 million aid from the French Industrial Innovation Agency for OSIRIS, an agricultural biotechnology research programme.

Make Brussels work

On its second anniversary, the Science|Business news network is launching the Policy Bridge, an independent channel for news and events dedicated to EU innovation and R&D policy.

Where are all the women?

New research blames a lack of role models and workforce practices for the low representatio of women among academic staff – particularly senior staff.

Europe’s Nobel week

Despite the Nobel-induced champagne now flowing in Berlin, Jülich, Paris and Cardiff, the fact remains that Europe has a fundamental problem in the quality of its science.