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The European University Association is calling for higher education, research and innovation to be priorities for EU funding in the next budget cycle from 2013

In just 10 years, Switzerland has become a leader in technology innovation in Europe. It’s not yet on a par with Silicon Valley, but they are on the right path, says one German venture capitalist

The contenders for FET flagship status – and €1B funding - may be unprecedented in scale for basic research projects, but they should look to the EIT’s Knowledge and Innovation Communities before expending time and effort on devising new operating models.

Nobel prize-winning economist James Heckman of the University of Chicago, has been awarded a €2.51 million five year grant by the European Research Council (ERC)

The 2008 merger of three of Finland’s top universities was the spur for Kristo Ovaska to opt out of a career in banking and set out to promote entrepreneurialism on the campus. Ovaska was presented with the Science|Business Academic Enterprise Bridge Award in February.

A new study of the distribution of innovative companies in the UK has huge implications for how innovation policies across Europe are focussed to maximise economic growth and job creation

The Drug Discovery Unit at Dundee is to spearhead the development of a national network to allow researchers to work together in fragment-based drug design

A consortium of manufacturers is to support construction of a facility for recycling aluminium used in food and drink packaging

After five years at the helm, Teri Willey is leaving Cambridge and returning to the US to take up a new position in New York on 1 June 2011.

The US Solicitor General says the US Patent and Trademark Office is wrong to have granted patents on isolated DNA, as the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit hears oral arguments in the Myriad gene patenting case

Six advanced computing projects have been shortlisted to compete for EU Flagship status and access to total funding of €1 billion. The six have been awarded €1.5 million each to develop their programmes before two winners are selected in 12 months time

The idea of an experimental use exception to patent infringement under US law does not exist in a viable way. This is true even for academic and other non-profit entity researchers in many settings.

There is an increasing appreciation for science in the UK, but people feel less informed about it, the latest government survey finds