Connect national research programmes into one huge, coordinated joint programme with the view to solving common problems, suggests the Commission.

After frowning on the idea of avoiding patent litigation through arbitration, the European Commission appears to have changed its mind.

Four university researchers who cast off the cosy embrace of academe at a fringe meeting at the ESOF conference in Barcelona this week.

The cultural divide between academe and industry remains a stubborn obstacle to effective collaboration. How can this divide be navigated?

Higher education institutions are becoming increasingly influential in the UK knowledge economy according to the latest survey for the academic year 2006-2007.