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The Bloodhound car will be a 1,000mph machine that is part spaceship, part jet fighter and part racing car. This is not a big vanity project but an engineering adventure designed to stir a new generation, says Mark Elvin

A low-cost text message programme to help young people improve their English language skills won the Science|Business inaugural Global Innovation Award earlier this month. Its founder, Elvis Austins, spells out how he got here and what comes next

Venture capital investment in EU start-ups is less than one-quarter of US level. Policy shift could help spur more innovation by allowing pension and insurance funds to channel a small fraction of their assets to venture funds

ETH Zurich formalizes collaboration with Stellenbosch University in South Africa to advance science and technology for the benefit of society in the areas of sustainable production systems, human nutrition, and conservation ecology among other areas of mutual interest.

Start-up companies from South Africa and Nigeria selected as finalists to compete in The Global Innovation Award on 7 October in Berlin.

Limpopo local government staff and Venda University are to work with the University of Warwick to develop and share new skills following a grant from the British High Commission.

The five-year-old Hamma plant has slacked the thirst of a metropolis, but innovation and new technologies are needed to address environmental issues

With an era of deep sea mining being ushered in, a new breed of robots developed in the UK are poised to lead the way

Next generation of public-public research programmes in fields of clinical trials, SME financing, active ageing and metrology among initiatives that received green light from MEPs

Fifty-five of the world's most academically brilliant and socially committed young people from 27 countries have been selected as Gates Cambridge Scholars and will begin their postgraduate courses at the University of Cambridge this October.

Over a third of public support for R&D is delivered via tax incentives, with multinationals, rather than domestic SMEs benefitting the most. It’s time to give small companies an equal chance, says the OECD

Despite the continuing economic crisis, R&D spending is ahead of 2008 levels and home grown innovation is prospering ahead of me-too models, according to the index

More than 100 stakeholders from around globe discuss best practices for addressing environmental and social concerns over unconventional gas development

Overall Europe’s innovation performance is up, despite economic woes. But the best performers are pulling further ahead of the rest of the field, and the top global players outside Europe still dominate

While northern and western European countries cut it in the top ranks of this year’s Global Competitiveness Report, those in the south are losing ground

Switzerland, Sweden, and Singapore lead in overall innovation performance according to the Global Innovation Index 2012