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In 2005, France launched competitive clusters to encourage research universities to support innovation. The same philosophy is driving universities to pool their R&D competencies, restructure – and even merge.

The light and dark blues have found new competitive pursuit that doesn't involve rowing down The Thames, or fighting in the Twickenham mud -- innovation.

MIT’s Media Lab Europe was to be the crowning glory of Ireland’s digital economy. Now the Irish Public Accounts Committee has delivered its verdict on what went wrong.

A battle over the future of scientific publishing is shaping up in Brussels, as leading publishers tell the Commission to butt out

Finland’s universities are banding together to establish a national network for cooperation in life sciences, Biocenter Finland.

The UK government has announced it is investing £8.7 million in an Airbus-led project to develop simulation software for aircraft design.

Innovation policy needs to be tailored to take account of complexity and prevent neighbouring regions competing for the same resources

A nuclear research facility is to be established in the north of England with £20 million from the University of Manchester and the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority.

Exclusive: Cambridge Enterprise, after a 45 per cent revenue rise, is seeking extra funding for its university spin-outs

Sweden is investing €8.5 million in a new molecular medicine laboratory at Umeå University, focusing on infectious diseases.

Scientists in the two newest EU members may have more reason to cheer their accession than the farmers and labourers who were expected to benefit most.

A new report from the OECD makes uncomfortable reading for anyone in Switzerland involved in educational R&D.

Who cares about Brussels? Apparently scientists do, with over 200,000 application forms for its €4 billion fund already downloaded. What next? Commissioner Janez Potočnik wants an EU-wide debate.