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The Commission is formulating its strategy on cluster development to boost innovation and maximise returns from structural funds and related budgets. But is there a policy recipe for a perfectly formed cluster?

R&D Commissioner Janez Potočnik is keen to see his country, Slovenia, advancing the European Research Area during its EU Presidency. But, asks Nuala Moran, is the necessary momentum there?

The Innovative Medicines Initiative gets under way in earnest on 30 April when would-be participants will learn about the scope of the programme.

The company that produces BlackBerry handhelds is to open an R&D facility on the campus of Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany.

As the Commission embarks on its ambitious lead markets project, it is becoming clear that handing out public money is not part of the plan.

The Internet has unleashed waves of innovation – from online banking to virtual drug discovery. But it has also spawned the rise of organised cybercrime.

More than 20 years ago Steve Currall came to the UK doing a masters at the LSE. Now the American innovation professor is running a UCL department from a brand-new £11 million building.

The US open innovation consultancy NineSigma is to open a European headquarters in Leuven, Belgium.

Denmark is the most networked economy in the world, according to latest edition of the Global Information Technology Report.