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New international university alliance to address global challenges with cross-border research in health, sustainability, social justice and innovation

Unexpected, sudden and very large cuts come at a time when Finland needs innovation-driven growth more than ever, says Aalto University President Tuula Teeri

The ecosystem is improved, but dedication, commitment and hard work remain the key to success, says Croatian entrepreneur Ivo Spigel, who interviewed 28 of Europe’s most successful entrepreneurs for his book, The European Start-up Revolution

Kaunas University of Technology and Lithuanian University of Health Sciences will join forces to form the University of Lithuania

Three global pharmaceutical companies and the technology transfer offices of three world-leading universities – Imperial College London, University College London and the University of Cambridge – have joined forces with a combined £40M to create the Apollo Therapeutics Fund

Lorenz Meier, a doctoral student in computer science at ETH Zurich, created the PX4 software that is already being used to pilot many drones. Now, one of the world’s biggest electronics manufacturers has adopted the software as standard

At only 3% of total R&D spending, FP7 had a disproportionately positive impact on the economy and on science. However, €20M spent on evaluations was wasteful and there was failure on the gender gap

A new analysis lays bare the extent of the economic divide in EU research, with 85 per cent of funding in FP7 going to research facilities and companies in western Europe

Engineers developing a drill for probing Mars, the Moon and asteroids have created the world’s first portable charger to power up electric cars anywhere, anytime.

Everyone has an opinion on the scope of the EU’s new innovation institute. Some of the best ideas can be found close to home, Christian Ehler MEP tells Science|Business

At the World Economic Forum in Davos this week there is no little excitement – and some fretting – over the rise of smart machines

Industry, universities and research institutes invited to submit proposals by the summer

Among European universities Aalto’s position rises from 59th to 28th in European Research Council rankings

King’s College London has announced that it has recently entered into an exclusive license agreement with Pfizer Inc. for the development of a series of adeno-associated virus (AAV) gene therapy vectors

Imperial Innovations and the European Investment Fund are each to put £24.75M into the University College London fund UK, which will be managed by the VC firm Albion Ventures

Education minister Sander Dekker will push to make more journal papers free to publicly-funded researchers during the Netherlands’ presidency of the EU Council

Computer scientists working in a group led by ETH Professor Marc Pollefeys have developed a piece of software that makes it very easy to create 3D models of entire buildings. Running on a new type of tablet computer, the program generates 3D maps in real time

Consultations on the shape of a European Innovation Council are underway, but it is far from clear what the remit should be. Science|Business takes a look at role models around the world

One of the world's most distinguished computer scientists, Professor Nick Jennings, is to become Vice Provost (Research) at Imperial from April 2016

Submissions to an ongoing House of Lords inquiry point to massive support for EU membership among UK scientists, universities, medical research charities and industry, while the campaign group Vote Leave has set out its view on why an exit from the EU would benefit UK science