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The UK’s system for pricing drugs is to move from one based on controlling profits to a value-based approach. The switch has implications for other countries in Europe.

One of Ireland’s best known scientific sons has been lured back from his post as Director General of the European Molecular Biology Organisation to take the helm at Science Foundation Ireland.

Venture capitalists are on a roll: in the past week two more firms confirmed the closing of significant new funds, to add to five others announced this year.

The light and dark blues have found new competitive pursuit that doesn't involve rowing down The Thames, or fighting in the Twickenham mud -- innovation.

Free money does not appeal to the large number of businesses in the UK that fail to apply for R&D tax relief.

MIT’s Media Lab Europe was to be the crowning glory of Ireland’s digital economy. Now the Irish Public Accounts Committee has delivered its verdict on what went wrong.

For the third year running the countries of north east Asia have upped their patent applications, shifting the international balance in innovation.

A battle over the future of scientific publishing is shaping up in Brussels, as leading publishers tell the Commission to butt out

Finland’s universities are banding together to establish a national network for cooperation in life sciences, Biocenter Finland.

The UK government has announced it is investing £8.7 million in an Airbus-led project to develop simulation software for aircraft design.