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Local authorities of the four south Polish districts of Silesia, Lesser Poland, Opole and Lower Silesia signed an agreement earlier this month to form an Innovation Highway.

Stockholm’s biomedical university is looking to double its seed capital to get discoveries to market, according to President Harriet Wallberg-Henriksson.

Considering R&D collaboration in China? Look before you leap, say innovation consultants Taco C.R. van Someren and Shuhua van Someren-Wang. Mistakes can cost millions.

Inward investment and high-tech start-ups are seen as key ingredients of the knowledge economy. But the two are not compatible, says new research

“What we need is not more patents, but more good patents” – the battle cry of the new President of the European Patent Office, Alison Brimelow.

The preliminary findings of an investigation into the innovation performance of Russia and Ukraine placed them 27th and 35th respectively out of 36 countries considered in the study.

Governments seek to encourage innovation in healthcare, but then they won’t pay for the treatments that follow. But who are they to judge?

It’s not enough to spin companies out and build them as national enterprises, says Imperial College Pro Rector Tidu Maini. The challenge is to go global – we need to scale up our thinking on science.

US dominance in innovation can no longer be assumed, believe the CEOs of some of its leading technology companies. Competitiveness is set to be a key issue in the 2008 Presidential election

In swelling its partners from 20 in 2000 to over 1,300 today, IBM has proved that its venture-partnering model can yield terrific results.

North Rhine–Westphalia’s Industrial Biotechnology Cluster took joint honours with the Hamburg region in German’s BioIndustry 2021 competition.

Is medical research worth the money? The UK Medical Research Council has commissioned to find out the answer.

A survey of applications filed at the European Patent Office finds the field of nanotechnology is splintered across a vast array of application areas.

After a decade of withering in the shade of genetically modified crops, plant sciences are back on the political agenda in Europe follow the launch this week of a new Strategic Research Agenda.

The European Union inched closer to creating a European Institute of Technology this week, when ministers to dedicate up to €308.7 million to the project.

The EIT finally squeaks through the Brussels bureaucracy – but more dead than alive