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The Mediterranean Association for Science Advancement and Dissemination held its inaugural meeting earlier this week at the Città della Scienza in Naples, Italy.

The European Commission is proposing a compromise to break decades of deadlock in the effort to create a European Union-wide patent.

Does it really help to have media stars along to launch your reports?

As Science|Business launches its report on demand-driven innovation, we take a look how two universities are changing their structures in a bid to become innovation friendly.

The Kremlin opened bidding this week on a new venture-capital programme to kick-start the country’s technology sector. And it starts with full pockets.

Politicians are great gamblers – but the EC President is playing for high stakes by wagering all on the creation of a European Institute of Technology.

What is the DTI's Technology Strategy Board for? One answer comes in this week's UK budget.

Deloitte's take on the budget and R&D tax relief. And other responses on the spending for science.

The latest stop for the Science|Business road show had leading lights in EU policy arguing about what it takes to create a European innovation zone.

Its government will increase science spending by 25 per cent in the next three years – but the UK won’t meet the 3 per cent Lisbon target.

A draft European law to fight counterfeiting and piracy has been narrowed to exclude patent infringements – but many other legitimate activities look set to be criminalised.

Microsoft’s Jean-Philippe Courtois thinks Europe is an innovative place. But, he says, there are some clear gaps.

Is MIT really that special? Does it have lessons for others? A recent paper says that you have to line up a bunch of related factors – scientific, organisational, regional and so on. Picking them off one at a time won’t work.

A tale of two cities: as the industry in Lyon trumpeted the benefits of biotech, MEPs in Strasbourg looked the other way, and declined to debate them