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Ireland’s remarkable ability to attract inward investment has made it the economic role model for aspiring small countries. Now it plans to lure corporate R&D.

The UN “think tank” wants to step up collaborations, says its new rector. Part of a series on university tech-transfer strategies.

The Romanian government is launching a campaign to make science and technology development a key to prosperity and peace in the strife-torn Western Balkans.

Research actors within the Western Balkans face a number of challenges in gaining the full benefit of participation in EU research programmes.

If the Western Balkans region is to improve the overall position of its science and technology, what are the obstacles to overcome?

The pace of new product introductions picked up in the US in 2006, although the number of start-up companies spun off from research institutions fell, according a new survey.

An avalanche of 9,167 applications hit the European Research Council in 2007. Its boss reviews the lessons it learned.

Over half of the students entering European universities are women – but the higher one goes in the research hierarchies, the more women seem to disappear.

The way is now open to Albania’s full participation in the EU’s Seventh Research Framework Programme.

The art of innovation – putting one’s ideas first, trumpeting your merits, taking on risk – is most “un-Finnish”. But not to one Finn.

The EU’s top R&D administrator gives a preview of changes ahead for 2008 – including plans to increase the mobility of researchers.

Alexander von Gabain and his team laid the foundations of an enterprise that would rise to the top of the continent’s biotechnology pile – and rewrite the region’s rules for biotechnology start-ups.