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Members of the European Parliament have expressed concern about the impact that result-based research funding could have on the quality and nature of research.

The UK Technology Strategy Board has set up the Stratified Medicines Innovation Platform to oversee an investment of over £50 million in personalised medicine.

Norway’s Research Council is celebrating a boost for basic research after years of little or no growth, with a proposed increase of NOK60 million (€7.42 million).

As the Spanish goverment looks to reduce its budget deficit, government spending on R&D will fall by more than 8 per cent next year, according to one analysis.

The technology is making progress, but there are fears that commercialising solar energy is too dependent on fickle government policy and the price of oil.

A new book by Georges Haour and Laurent Miéville considers how companies can tap universities’ knowledge.

As an expert panel urges better EU handling of scientific data, Commissioner Kroes suggests Framework funding should also take account of it.

A recipient of one of the European Research Council’s first grants, Konstantin Novoselov, has won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his research on graphene.

Nine countries have signed up to construct the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research, a particle accelerator to be located at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt, Germany.