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Industry in Europe and elsewhere will need to act in concert to apply the recommendations iof the report into the disastrous TGN 1412 drugs trial.

The latest OECD research on Japan provides a warning to Europe that merely spending more does not make innovation spring forth.

Seven of London’s leading medical research institutions created an independent company to broker partnerships in the field of genetics and genomics.

As Germany takes over the six-month rotating presidency of the European Union from Finland, there's little evidence of new thinking about innovation.

For research investors, 2006 was the year that the European train finally started to leave the station. The new year will tell whether it’s going anywhere worth visiting.

The Czech Republic is another magnet for new R&D operations.

Start up funds for PhD students in China.

Boosting innovation in the European Union may be a top political priority but heads of state and government from the 25 countries in the Union had little time for the topic at this week’s summit in Brussels.

Ireland’s new Biomedical Diagnostics Institute was launched last week as the focus for industrial-clinical-academic research collaborations.

A conference in Brussels separates the fact from myth in technology transfer.

For European tech start-ups, 2006 was the year that the traffic lights for money switched from red to yellow. Yet to be seen is whether they finally go green next year.

Responses to the pre-budget statement offer grudging praise and a few suggestions.

The UK Government's budget preview was an excuse to flood the place with a torrent of papers on science, engineering and technology.

Three reports, two commissioned by possible next premier Gordon Brown and one inspired by him provide a glimpse of the future shape of UK innovation policy.

Just few days after the announcement of cut in its biology budget, France’s leading public research organisation is going flat out for industrial contracts.

Political naivety and national protectionism were blamed for quashing the latest attempt to forge a single patent regime for the European Union.

A new agency is needed with significant funds to pull through research ideas into viable products and services, says the UK Conservative Party.

Europe needs to shape up its IT department and make us all better at applying and using computers, says the European Union’s ICT taskforce.