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China’s economy dipped at first after its $600 billion stimulus ended, and then regained steam. But did science benefit?

New approaches to funding R&D projects through risk-sharing loans are beginning to bear fruit.

Venture capitalist Shahzad Malik challenges the view that life sciences start-ups are too risky to invest in.

A review of the decade-old Orphan Medicinal Products Regulation shows that research has been boosted and more drugs are available to treat rare diseases.

A conference in Brussels is set to celebrate the Marie Curie programme, which has funded 50,000 researchers since its inception in 1996.

The ESF’s Techbreak aims to pull in expertise from a wide range of fast moving sectors to speed up industrialisation of Europe’s space sector.

As Research ministers welcome the healthy ageing project, the Commission invites ideas for its European Innovation Partnership.

It’s always been tough for start-ups to raise money. And now, when their innovation sparkle is needed more than ever, getting funding just got harder

Research spending goes up in 2011 and projects funded by stimulus money are in progress. But the government needs to show R&D is worth it.

Investment in research and innovation is the way drive the recovery and restore our battered economies, says Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn.

After registering 57,900 patents last year, covering 8,800 inventions, Siemens pledges to increase its investment in research and development.

The Innovative Vector Control Consortium has been given a second grant by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to fund the development of new insecticides.

Abeo’s new construction technology won it the Cleantech World Championship at a Silicon Valley event, in front of more than 1000 international investors.

The Innovation Academy, set up by Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin, aims to develop a new breed of entrepreneurial graduates.