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In 2005, France launched competitive clusters to encourage research universities to support innovation. The same philosophy is driving universities to pool their R&D competencies, restructure – and even merge.

This month the European Research Council is launched – and if it succeeds, it will usher in radical change in university research.

The open-source software company Red Hat is opening a centre for support and R&D in Serbia, building on a project initiated in 2005 by Belgrade University to create an incubator for new technologies.

The EU and China are launching a project with to cut global emissions of greenhouse gases, giving Europe emission quotas and “greening” coal-fired power stations in China.

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.