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Imperial’s President, Professor Alice Gast, welcomed Dr Ashton Carter and UK Secretary of State for Defence, Michael Fallon, to the College on Friday 9 October.

To stop publicly-funded research sinking in the valley of death, it is essential to bring industry and universities together in centres dedicated to commercialisation, according to Mike Gregory and Roman Szumski, experts from the UK and Canada

ITER will be the biggest-ever fusion device generating a plasma whose volume will be close to 840 m3 at 150 million ˚ C, ten times the temperatures at the core of the sun. To achieve these temperatures we would need powerful heating systems using high-energy beams, in order to push together the nuclei and trigger off a fusion reaction.

The projects study the impacts and opportunities of digitalisation, service robotics, the platform economy, and the energy revolution.

Research Commissioner tells journal publishing companies to reshape their business models to the realities of the 21st century

With a government spending review looming, the research lobby is out to make the case for protecting the R&D budget. Here, Hayaatun Sillem of the Royal Academy of Engineering argues an increase in public R&D will pull in more private investment

The new money will fund basic research that would not attract grants from other sources

Draft work plans for 2016 and 2017 are out, with ambitions to replace animal testing, resist the rising tide of antimicrobial resistance and deliver faster internet speeds

The Commission is dovetailing its political and policy priorities into the new Horizon 2020 research plans for 2016 - 2017

Clever intellectual property (IP) management and carefully designed government policies can help SMEs raise more finance, reducing the risk for banks and venture capital investors, according to new Science|Business reports

The agreement sets the stage for continued cutting edge research and deep space technology development

The programme included a visit to Design Factory and Startup Sauna

King's College London is one of 10 universities that has been awarded funding from Research Councils UK (RCUK) as part of the new Public Engagement with Research Catalyst Seed Fund (CSF).

Research lobbyists gathered in Brussels to tell the European Commission what they like and what is niggling them about the €77B research programme to date

One of the best features of Horizon 2020 risks becoming its fatal flaw. Open-ended competitions have resulted in a flood of doomed applications, some 80 pages in length. Proposals should be shorter, and call topics tightened

A new Science|Business analysis puts the spotlight on the most innovative clusters in Europe, uncovering what it takes to translate research from bench to bedside and highlighting the crucial need for policy support, innovation pull, and access to finance

UK pharma company jumps on the open access R&D bandwagon, offering access to data on over 50 of its drugs, with the aim of inspiring new combination therapies for cancer

On 17 September 2015, the President and Director of the COST Association had a first meeting with the Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation, Carlos Moedas, discussing COST’s role in promoting open science and open innovation across Europe

Karolinska Institutet (KI) invites applicants to a new professorship, "The Endre A. Balazs Professorship in Innovation and Entrepreneurship"