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The new rules for the international economic system must be fit for the Knowledge Economy, writes Debra M. Amidon.

Some see the financial catastrophe as a way to kick start a new cycle. But conditions may not be right for an innovation-led boom, says Sami Mahroum.

The UK government is putting in £150M as a cornerstone investor in what it hopes will grow to a £1 billion fund, one of the largest in Europe.

The ground has been broken for Innovation Square, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne’s on-campus site for corporate R&D.

The Irish Prime Minister has announced the appointment of an innovation taskforce to help make Ireland an international innovation hub.

TU Dortmund is among the winners of North Rhine Westphalia’s Bio.NRW competition, taking €540,000 to develop new biocatalysis technologies.

France Biotech’s newly elected Administrative Council have appointed André Choulika as Chairman to replace long-standing leader Philippe Pouletty.

Reconciling growing demand and shrinking budgets will require more international collaboration in healthcare, say leading experts.

The world has coordinated its rescue of the banks, but there is no coordination or agreement over how innovation money should be spent.

Political leaders love innovation and want more of it, but they need to have the right policies, says innovation guide Joachim von Heimburg.

As Sweden prepares for the EU presidency, Bjarne Kirsebom, of the Swedish Permanent Representation in Brussels, spoke to Science|Business.

The US pharma company Eli Lilly has launched a new model of open innovation devised to get over the drug industry’s productivity problems.

The EUA has welcomed the European Commission’s announcement that it will maintain the rate for the recovery of indirect costs in FP7.

York University has opened a new £1.6 million scientific Centre of Excellence in Mass Spectrometry, with funding from local inward investment agencies.