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The latest stop for the Science|Business road show had leading lights in EU policy arguing about what it takes to create a European innovation zone.

Microsoft’s Jean-Philippe Courtois thinks Europe is an innovative place. But, he says, there are some clear gaps.

Its government will increase science spending by 25 per cent in the next three years – but the UK won’t meet the 3 per cent Lisbon target.

Is MIT really that special? Does it have lessons for others? A recent paper says that you have to line up a bunch of related factors – scientific, organisational, regional and so on. Picking them off one at a time won’t work.

YouTube, MySpace – those are some of the hottest properties on the Internet these days. They may also be the working definition of demand-side innovation,

A new study claims that meeting the EU’s biofuels target would spur a huge increase in food imports – and contribute to deforestation in less developed countries.

European pharma and biotech companies are behind the US. But in one shining area, Europe has outpaced the US in creating a new sector: biosimilars.