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Europe wants big breakthroughs in renewable energies and cleantech: a new strategy will channel money to clean energy demonstrators.

A new take on innovation, new public private research partnerships and a new push on patents will be at the heart of the EU’s new Research & Innovation Strategy.

Some of the best-known names in European business are to join a research consortium to develop products for people who have difficulty using everyday items.

ProTon Europe, the pan-European technology transfer network, has announced the results of its 2009 survey, showing significant increase in knowledge transfer activities.

It will come as no surprise, but the World Economic Forum’s fifth and final biennial review finds Europe did not meet the Lisbon objectives.

Research funding is up and ideas are still flowing, but the financial crisis is making it harder to commercialise technology, say top US universities.

Dundee University is to lead a €12 million research project aiming to find early indicators of certain types of cancer and to promote the development of new drugs.

MIT and South Africa’s Technology Innovation Agency are to join the Pool for Open Innovation against Neglected Tropical Diseases.

The cost-cutting provoked by the global economic downturn is likely to have a long-term impact on the life sciences industries, says a new report.

Grassroots innovation is taking hold again, as the US moves to reassert its dominance in technology products.

Commissioner Geoghegan-Quinn announces plans to simplify research funding – without compromising financial control.

The EU needs to create a better environment for innovation, and prescriptions on R&D spending won’t be enough.

Germany’s High-Tech Grunderfonds has held its first partnering conference in Bonn, with 50 early-stage portfolio companies presenting their technologies.

The Irish government has announced that the United Technologies Corporation is to establish an energy and security research centre in Ireland.