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Europe’s innovation skills are improving and closing the gap with the US and Japan. But the scoreboard shows European innovation is still only good in parts.

The European science and technology information service AlphaGalileo will add Spanish to its site after an agreement with Spain’s national body for promoting public understanding of science.

The European Commission said it will not raise any objections to the financial aid granted by France to a new transport programme.

The Stockholm Brain Institute has agreed a partnership with IBM giving neuroscientists access to the first Blue Gene supercomputer to be installed in the Nordic region.

Despite rumours of political roadblocks, the EU's education commissioner says a deal is in the works to create the European Institute of Technology.

The Department of Trade and Industry has just "liberated" £60 million from the UK's science budget.

A test story, as problems were reported with the bulletin builder system

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.

A Dutch PhD student has found that the Dutch government is failing in five of seven key factors needed for successful innovation in energy.

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.