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Experts appointed to help set up ERA board

The European Commission has taken the first step in reforming research advice by appointing three people to identify experts from around Europe to form the advisory European Research Area Board.

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.

ERA plans draw over 800 responses

The Green Paper on the formation of a European Research Area attracted more than 800 responses by the time the consultation came to an end this week.

Patents: France says Oui

With the French Senate ratifying the London Agreement on patent translation, technology companies can look to a much cheaper future.