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A major survey shows confidence holding steady as early-stage funding eases slightly – and the relationship with big pharma improves.

PepsiCo’s $5.2 million donation to look at lifestyle and chronic disease looks like an act of the archest cynicism. But someone needs to do something, says Nuala Moran.

New findings strengthen concerns that the European Clinical Trials Directive has hampered academic clinical research.

The European Investment Bank and the European Commission have announced the introduction of the Risk Sharing Finance Facility to provide additional support to R&D and innovation projects in Europe.

The scientists’ organisation Euroscience has welcomed the European Commission’s Green paper on the European Research Area – but raised concerns about aspects of the consultative procedures.

The UK Conservative Party has joined the tidal wave of opinion arguing that the European Union needs to use its public procurement budget to drive innovation.

Nordforsk, the funding agency of the Nordic Council of Ministers, has funded the coordination of a network on biomedical imaging.

Plans to create a European Research Area put too much stress on research and not enough on innovation, says the Eureka secretariat.

The European Parliament gave its formal blessing to the launch of a new pan-European technology institute next year – but insisted that it include “innovation” in the title.

The technology transfer arm of Imperial College London reported rapid growth in its investment portfolio in its first full year as a publicly traded company.

Today France Biotech celebrates its tenth birthday at the Eurobio Show in Lille. And the picture has never been rosier.

The European Commission has laid out a new strategy for financing the parlous Galileo global positioning system and getting the European Institute of Technology off the ground.

The multidisciplinary nature of research in nanosciences and nanotechnologies will result in a sharp increase in European funding, the Commission has said.

If the UK government truly believes universities are central not only to the economy, but the fabric of society, it must set them free, says Professor Rick Trainor, President of Universities UK.

It may come near the top of international rankings for its innovation performance, but Nokia’s top research manager thinks Denmark still needs to do better.

Systems biology involves a fundamental change in approach to biological research. Is Europe ready to handle it?

Queen’s University Belfast has launched a scheme to encourage more students to study scientific and technical subjects.