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The proliferation of innovation jargon is making it hard to formulate effective innovation policy, writes Sami Mahroum.

Some of the best-known names in European business are to join a research consortium to develop products for people who have difficulty using everyday items.

ProTon Europe, the pan-European technology transfer network, has announced the results of its 2009 survey, showing significant increase in knowledge transfer activities.

It will come as no surprise, but the World Economic Forum’s fifth and final biennial review finds Europe did not meet the Lisbon objectives.

Research funding is up and ideas are still flowing, but the financial crisis is making it harder to commercialise technology, say top US universities.

Dundee University is to lead a €12 million research project aiming to find early indicators of certain types of cancer and to promote the development of new drugs.

MIT and South Africa’s Technology Innovation Agency are to join the Pool for Open Innovation against Neglected Tropical Diseases.