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The European Union puts research to increase the health span of its citizens at centre of new innovation strategy.

Economic recovery hinges on innovation. It follows that EU members must embrace the Innovation Union - providing funding - but most importantly, political support.

The Commission announces its largest annual spend on ICT research and tells the industry it must achieve a higher impact with the money.

Sixteen more ICT firms have signed up to the European Community’s voluntary code to reduce the electricity consumption of their equipment and data centres.

The Structural Genomics Consortium has announced the publication of its 1000th structure, of a protein known as JmjD2C.

Nestlé is to develop so-called ‘functional foods’, which are designed to prevent and treat diseases including obesity and diabetes, but are not registered as pharmaceuticals.

The EIT’s energy project begins its task of creating a European ecosystem for funding sustainable energy start-ups today.

After a public peer review, the European Research Area Board's recommendations for improving innovation in Europe have been published.

The French innovation agency’s approach to risk-sharing is enabling start-ups to attract private capital and make strides in commercialising new technologies.

The Gulf countries have a unique opportunity to become the world’s centre of eco-innovation, says Sami Mahroum.

The long-awaited EU Innovation Union policy, now likely to be published early next month, is raising hopes it will boost innovation in Europe.

Twenty partners from across research and industry have teamed-up to create a single open source platform for developing mobile Internet applications.

The European Commission has set out moves to encourage private and public investment in broadband networks to deliver speeds of 30 megabits per second by 2013.