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If the Western Balkans region is to improve the overall position of its science and technology, what are the obstacles to overcome?

Can investment in science and technology help bring stability and prosperity to one of Europe’s oldest trouble-spots?

The European Commission has selected six areas of pioneering research for its long-awaited lead markets initiative.

Over half of the students entering European universities are women – but the higher one goes in the research hierarchies, the more women seem to disappear.

Using Europe’s €1,700 billion annual public procurement budget to stimulate innovation is an idea whose time is coming – slowly.

The art of innovation – putting one’s ideas first, trumpeting your merits, taking on risk – is most “un-Finnish”. But not to one Finn.

Alexander von Gabain and his team laid the foundations of an enterprise that would rise to the top of the continent’s biotechnology pile – and rewrite the region’s rules for biotechnology start-ups.

The spin-out tag makes university start-ups look weak and vulnerable, says Philip Sharpe from QinetiQ, one of Europe’s largest technology commercialisation companies.

Most of the Cohesion Policy budget of €347 million is being invested in projects that support the Lisbon strategy, according to the latest analysis of the programme.

The European Parliament has given the thumbs up to the first ever Europe-wide public–private research partnerships, approving programmes in miniaturisation, embedded computers, medicines and aviation.

An academic–industry consortium is setting up a centre to support collaborative research and technology transfer between the UK and India.

Research Commissioner Janez Potocnik called for Europe to adopt a global culture of entrepreneurship in the face of the challenge from China and India.

The New Year will see the launch of ten new collaborative research projects to be funded by the German Research Foundation, DFG.

The heavyweights of UK health research are joining forces to found a £500 million Centre for Medical Research and Innovation in the heart of London.