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Call the Presidential candidates to account for science and make sure they recognise scientific issues are global, says world-leading biologist and Nobel laureate David Baltimore.

Thin drug pipelines prompted the biopharmaceuticals licensing splurge of 2006/7. Now pharma and large biotechs are looking to tap into university research too.

The European Commission wants member states to adopt a code of conduct for nanotechnology research at universities, research institutes and companies.

Tough news for America. China’s technological development is set to make it the main driver of world’s economy – and an integrated Europe could overtake it too.

Commissioner Ján Figel has named the people charged with recommending the governing board of the European Institute of Technology.

The exchange of knowledge requires professional people who understand how to do it – including how to manage IP, says Gilles Capart from ProTon Europe.

Its science fiction overtones once left robotics out of the funding mainstream and reliant solely on government funding. Not any more.

Three decades of relative calm in the world of patents is coming to an end, says recently installed EPO head Alison Brimelow.

The UK government’s minor concession on an 80 per cent increase in capital gains tax on selling start-ups won’t win back entrepreneurs

Like many others, the Swiss EPFL has grand plans to attract international companies. Its secret weapon: renouncing royalties in favour of overhead financing.

14 countries met earlier this week at the Jülich Research Centre in Germany to inaugurate a project for a pan-European supercomputing infrastructure.

The Slovenian Minister for Higher Education, Science and Technology, Mojca Kucler Dolinar, has pledged to conclude adoption of the £400 million Eurostars initiative.

The European Institute of Technology moved a step forward when the Council of the EU gave the project the nod last week, paving the way for work to begin on the institute’s formation in the spring of 2008.

European Commission officials are studying ways to give R&D investment an additional boost from 2009, according to a senior EC research official.

What possessed an eminent Edinburgh researcher to leave the senior common room and get hooked on starting new businesses?