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Crocus Technology, a spin out from France’s Atomic Energy Commission, has secured $300 million to build a semiconductor foundry in Russia, with $245 million coming from the state-owned nanotechnology investment fund Rusnano

Research ministry will provide €20 million to a venture capital fund set up to commercialise public sector research

The launch of the first two operational satellites in the EU's global navigation satellite system will take place on 20th October

J. Frank Brown, former Dean of INSEAD, one of Europe’s premier business schools, reflects on leadership and innovation as he joins the US investment firm General Atlantic

The UK should make achieving a unified EU patent system and patent court the highest immediate priority and update its copyright laws for the digital Internet age

Manchester University is to host the “pre-competitive” centre, specialising in inflammatory diseases

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.

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