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An appreciation of Andrew Dearing, Secretary General of the European Industrial Research Management Association for 10 years.

The euphoria of winning the bid has worn off. Now the hard work begins for three pioneering consortia chosen by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology.

The OECD has set out its new Innovation Strategy, providing a policy tool it says will help countries to build a “sustainable and job-rich recovery”.

China’s new Nebulae Supercomputer has moved to the number two spot, on the tail of the world’s most powerful computer, Jaguar, based at the US Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Germany’s Fraunhofer centres are to set up a joint project centre in Asia, based at the Centre for Advanced Media Technology in Singapore.

Thoughts have turned to shaping Framework Programme 8. Here, Stijn Delauré and Laura Keustermans of the League of European Research Universities make their recommendations.

Innovation may rest on R&D, but it takes place in a far bigger and more diverse context, says the UK’s new science minister, David Willetts.

A new method is needed for linking research inputs to innovation outputs, says Commissioner Geoghegan-Quinn.

The European University Association has published its latest report on the impact of the economic crisis, showing the increasingly difficult situation faced by universities.

The Swiss National Science Foundation has published its annual review, showing it funded around 2,900 research proposals worth €498 million in 2009.

The UK’s new coalition government has swept into office and announced immediate cuts of £6 billion in public spending.

RIKEN, the Japanese research institute, has launched a contest to design a DNA sequence to give Arabidopsis Thaliana the ability to absorb and detoxify formaldehyde.