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Local authorities of the four south Polish districts of Silesia, Lesser Poland, Opole and Lower Silesia signed an agreement earlier this month to form an Innovation Highway.

Considering R&D collaboration in China? Look before you leap, say innovation consultants Taco C.R. van Someren and Shuhua van Someren-Wang. Mistakes can cost millions.

GM crop bans have compromised arable farmers and plant research in Europe. Now the speed of GM adoption elsewhere is threatening Europe’s livestock agriculture too.

Managing clinical trials is, for the pharmaceutical industry, a growing headache in Europe. One key to the problem: the teaching hospital.

Stockholm’s biomedical university is looking to double its seed capital to get discoveries to market, according to President Harriet Wallberg-Henriksson.

“What we need is not more patents, but more good patents” – the battle cry of the new President of the European Patent Office, Alison Brimelow.

Poland has set out a strategy for developing nanosciences prepared by 14 members of the Interdisciplinary Group for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology.

It’s not enough to spin companies out and build them as national enterprises, says Imperial College Pro Rector Tidu Maini. The challenge is to go global – we need to scale up our thinking on science.

The preliminary findings of an investigation into the innovation performance of Russia and Ukraine placed them 27th and 35th respectively out of 36 countries considered in the study.

Germany’s largest research funding organisation, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, elected eight new members to its Senate at its general assembly in Bonn.