The pressing need for alternative energy sources is driving investment into nanotechnology devices for energy applications such as photovoltaic solar cells.
There’s a new kid on the block. How will the European Science Foundation justify its existence once the EU’s new pan European funding body moves into town?
Norwegian researchers want to commercialise an easy-to-use technology that diagnoses the cause of snoring and measures the effectiveness of treatments.
This week the European Investment Fund took the first step in its ambitious new plan to unleash a wave of technology transfer across Europe. In doing so it endorsed a model pioneered in the UK.
Complying with the EU’s labyrinthine new REACH chemicals legislation was always going to be a tortuous process. For those who wait too long, it could be impossible.
On Tuesday the UK became the latest country to jump back on the nuclear energy bandwagon. But 20 years after Chernobyl, how easy is it to turn on the nuclear tap?
The European Investment Fund has partnered with UK technology commercialisation company IP Group to form a venture capital fund to invest in university spin-outs.
French researchers have developed a cell therapy that could slash the risk of rejection after bone marrow grafts to under 5 per cent, and are looking for first-round funding.
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