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As the EU ponders an Innovation Act, the UK Business Secretary Peter Mandelson gave budding entrepreneurs his view of what government can bring to innovation.

Two Framework Programme 6 (FP6) schemes specifically devised to promote the development of the European Research Area failed to deliver, according to a new report.

The central priority of the EU’s new Innovation Policy should be utilising research “rapidly and powerfully” for societal and development benefit, say business leaders in a new report.

The UK Technology Strategy Board (TSB) will invest £39.5 million across six calls in the next six months, in areas from regenerative medicine to low carbon housing.

Microsoft and Tilburg University in the Netherlands have entered into a four-year agreement in which Microsoft will support the research of the Tilburg Law and Economics Centre.

A £37 million Bioscience Campus is to be set up at GlaxoSmithKline’s site at Stevenage, UK, with funding from the government, GlaxoSmithKline, and other partners.

While the US needs a quality lift; Europe needs political leadership and new governance, says Bruno van Pottelsberghe of the Bruegel think tank.

The economic crisis is forcing a rethink, on both sides of the Atlantic, on the scope for collaboration in R&D.

The tech transfer arm of Imperial College London said it is gaining momentum and the portfolio is maturing as it reported results for the year to 31 July 2009.

The Alimentary Glycoscience Research Cluster at the National University of Ireland in Galway has been launched with a government grant of €5.2 million.