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The European Commission's Director-General for Education has given the most detailed timeline yet for the planned new European Institute of Technology.

The largest international science project since the Space Station has finally got the go-ahead after ten years of discussions.

The spending of the top 1,000 R&D spenders rose by more than $20 billion in 2005. But spending alone can’t buy effective innovation, global study.

French president Jacques Chirac pledged €3 billion for innovative start-ups. But can France’s venture capital community manage this largesse?

The Chinese Academy of Sciences continues to offer intriguing, almost poetic, glimpses of the country's R&D scene.

After a week when the media were full of ideas for developing safer nanotechnology, one country leaps into the vanguard with a programme to develop weapons based on nanotechnology.

BAE Systems has handed out an internal innovation prize that everyone might appreciate.

Faciulitating and accelerating communications between scientists, academics and assorted researchers was one of the original factors behind the creation and development of the Internet.

Never let it be said that China has abandoned its old ways. Socialism lives.

The German Research Foundation has opened an office in India, and is to introduce a new collaborative programme with its Indian counterpart next year.