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EU research funding is enabling scientists to work anywhere in the EU. Now, the Innovation Union strategy agreed earlier this month, will increase the level of scientific collaboration and joint funding with countries beyond Europe, Robert-Jan Smits tells the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Washington, DC.

The many obstacles in the way of campus start-ups range from mundane rivalry over laboratory space, to a lack of a top-level commitment to promoting technology transfer and entrepreneurialism. This year's ACES winners met with EIT to discuss experiences and share insight.

The first European repository of nanomaterials has been launched to support safety assessments and promote consumer confidence in nanotech based products

University technology transfer and commercialisation is a delicate balancing act, calling for scale and a global outlook on one hand, and intimate knowledge and continuous contact on the other, says Keith Robson, Chair of SETsquared.

The European aerospace group EADS announced it is to collaborate with scientists at Glasgow University, to work on making the use of solid hydrogen for fuelling planes a commercial proposition.

The European Commission proposes a joined-up approach to research and innovation, in a move that could have profound implications for European research funding

Knowledge transfer association ProTon Europe has elected Pat Frain, the former director of University College Dublin's technology transfer division, as its new Chair.

Having additional women as part of management gives companies a number of advantages in the field of innovation, according to a study from BI Norwegian School of Management.

As the Academic Enterprise Awards enters a fourth year, international business school INSEAD, in collaboration with EM Lyon Business School, plans to begin studying the finalists to see what makes them tick.

Academic entrepreneurs from Switzerland, Finland, the United Kingdom and Israel were recognised in the third annual ACES awards, held in Zurich on 3 February and awarded by the Science|Business Innovation Board.