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The EU has launched a €400 million joint programme with EUREKA countries to finance R&D partnerships with SMEs.

If the UK government truly believes universities are central not only to the economy, but the fabric of society, it must set them free, says Professor Rick Trainor, President of Universities UK.

Animal models of human disease are the foundation stone of drug development. Now new data show they routinely overstate how effective drugs are.

An EU project to develop a new computer-aided system for the early phase of aircraft design has begun under the leadership of the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.

Companies from the US and Japan are investing and launching partnerships in France to take advantage of its nanotechnology expertise.

It may come near the top of international rankings for its innovation performance, but Nokia’s top research manager thinks Denmark still needs to do better.

Systems biology involves a fundamental change in approach to biological research. Is Europe ready to handle it?

National research funding and grant giving bodies should be given more prominence in the European Commission’s plans to create the European Research Area, say research council heads and the European Science Foundation.