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President Obama’s $814B stimulus plan was the bone of contention in this week’s mid-term elections. So has the extra spending on science delivered or not?

Estonia is using Structural Funds, Framework grants and international collaboration to build its science base and drive innovation.

Ten leading organisations from the UK higher education and research sector have joined forces to push for Open Access to research papers.

In an unexpected change of heart, the US government has reversed its previous and long-held stance that genes can be patented.

Globalisation makes national industrial policies obsolete, the Commission says in a new industrial strategy.

The financial crisis continued to take a bite of R&D investment by Europe’s largest companies in 2009, with investment falling by 2.6 per cent.

A new €60 million biomedical research centre opened in Barcelona earlier this month, after a €15 million philanthropic donation got the project off the ground.

Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft is to set up a biotechnology laboratory in Chile, its first research centre in South America, following an agreement with the Chilean government.

The UK government has given the go-ahead to £200 million programme to develop technology and innovation centres modelled on Germany’s Fraunhofer Centres.

Europe’s research and technology organisations make an annual economic impact of up to €40 billion, but, says a new report, they are not getting the recognition they deserve.