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Three Spanish schools were ranked in the global top 20, making Spain one of the most attractive destinations for MBA studies

Satellites can help us to safeguard nature’s richest carbon storehouses – peatlands.

The budget of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research should be absorbed by the European Research Council. A proviso that projects backed by Dutch money be conducted in the Netherlands would strengthen the country’s research, says Luc Soete, Rector Magnificus, Maastricht University

The SME Initiative aims to encourage banks to lend more to cash-starved small companies. The European Commission wants more countries to use this route for channelling regional development money to the grass roots

The US patent office has given specific examples of what types of software can get protection. This provides long-awaited clarification, says patent expert Andrew Thompson

German companies still top the table but overall Europe is less innovative, a new EU survey reveals

How can Europe balance its goal of energy security with the need to reduce CO2 emissions? Part of the answer would be fixing the carbon emissions trading system

Aalto University has signed a new agreement with Spain’s ESADE Business School. The two institutions will expand their offering of training, leadership development and support for entrepreneurs and executives dedicated to innovating through design and technology as a means of creating new business opportunities.

King’s College London announced that it has entered an exclusive licence agreement with UCB that grants the company the rights to develop a peptide-based immunotherapy programme for type 1 diabetes.

Accusations fly as the European Commission releases details of the money its €315B investment plan will take out of the EU’s Horizon 2020 kitty. The European Institute of Innovation and Technology faces the deepest cut

With the post of EU chief science adviser axed, Research Commissioner Carlos Moedas is to look at new ways of providing independent scientific inputs to policymaking. A list of the options will be presented before the summer, he tells Science|Business

The President of Singapore today laid foundation stones to mark the development of two buildings for the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine.

The MED-EU strategic project aims to raise EU funds for scientific research and innovation. The project is coordinated by the University of Bologna and a few clinical institutes such as the S.Orsola-Malpighi University Hospital, the Rizzoli Institute for Orthopedics and the Institute for Neurologic Sciences of the Bellaria hospital.

Dr. Gilbert Lenssen, ABIS' Founding President: "I am confident that Sauquet will lead the network with great strength and support from its members"

As the EU lays out some of its hoped-for outcomes from controversial EU-US trade talks in pharma, medical devices, energy and other fields, the European Ombudsman insists more transparency is needed

Science|Business makes some guesses at what research and innovation topics are likely to be among the most discussed in 2015.

Allowing academics to move their pensions from country-to-country when taking up jobs at institutions across the EU has broad support. But there is a swathe of technical and legal detail to sort out and universities need to sign up

A new drug for ovarian cancer, developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge and AstraZeneca, has become the first of new class of drugs, known as PARP-inhibitors, to be granted approval anywhere in the world. The drug, Lynparza, has been granted Marketing Authorisation from the European Commission.