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The League of European Research Universities says the Commission’s recently published Green Paper on the European Research Area lacks vision and builds too strongly on the existing framework.

China needs a better return on its fast-rising investments in R&D and higher education if it is to become an “innovation-oriented” economy by 2020, OECD.

Others in Europe may envy the UK’s professionalised approach to tech transfer via a band of quoted commercialisation companies. But does it work?

The proposed merger of two Karlsruhe institutions could lead the way to greater international prestige for Germany’s universities.

US-Norwegian philanthropist Fred Kavli is to endow the Centre for the Biology of Memory at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

Two research facilities in Berlin are to merge, bringing together two complementary radiation sources and providing scientists with better research tools.

Don’t mistake science policy for innovation policy, says Richard Halkett,from NESTA, the UK’s National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts.

What price excellence? Qatar’s Sidra Medical and Research Centre has $7.9 billion to build a world class institution. But is money enough to bridge the gap?

When Lita Nelsen, director of MIT’s technology licensing office, is asked whether MIT has an incubator, she responds, “Yes, it’s called the city of Cambridge.” Lori Valigra looks at how MIT's environment drives entrepreneurship.

The number of spin-off companies with links to higher education institutions (HEIs) in the UK is on the rise, according to a new report.

The UK's seven research councils have set out a strategy to internationalise their activities to pull in more researchers from overseas and enable cross country funding of projects.