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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?

Nottingham University in the UK opened a new GBP4.4 million centre for clean chemistry and engineering.

Anti-trust legislation, particularly involving raids at dawn, is no way to improve productivity in the pharmaceutical industry, says Nuala Moran.

Intrapreneur Jean Stéphenne, manager of GSK Biologicals, has transformed the company’s research organisation and revolutionised the global vaccines market.

Ireland’s remarkable ability to attract inward investment has made it the economic role model for aspiring small countries. Now it plans to lure corporate R&D.

The Romanian government is launching a campaign to make science and technology development a key to prosperity and peace in the strife-torn Western Balkans.

By all means focus on funding – but let’s spend more on fundamentally redesigning educational systems: less energy on testing outdated models and more on trying new technologies.

As Framework Programme 7 fires up, Europe’s auditors throw on some cold water. Nuala Moran wonders how we will assess whether it has all been worthwhile.

Croatia and Norway have signed up to the European Patent Convention taking the total number of European Patent Organisation member states to 34.

Research actors within the Western Balkans face a number of challenges in gaining the full benefit of participation in EU research programmes.