The Irish government has revealed plans for an overhaul of its intellectual property laws following the recommendations of a recent report on innovation strategy.
The science of the very small needs big, expensive instruments. More coordination is needed in Europe to translate basic research through to commercialisation.
Thoughts have turned to shaping Framework Programme 8. Here, Stijn Delauré and Laura Keustermans of the League of European Research Universities make their recommendations.
The European University Association has published its latest report on the impact of the economic crisis, showing the increasingly difficult situation faced by universities.
RIKEN, the Japanese research institute, has launched a contest to design a DNA sequence to give Arabidopsis Thaliana the ability to absorb and detoxify formaldehyde.
One of the biggest new EU initiative in R&D was launched in 2008, and in 2010 the research begins: The European Institute of Innovation and Technology, or EIT in Brussels-speak, is going live.
With its existing grants stirring competition between universities, the ERC is considering another stream, new chair Helga Nowotny tells Science|Business.
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