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Jozef Cornu, an Alcatel-Lucent director, argues that Europe can repeat its GSM success story in other technology fields – if the EU acts fast.

A collaboration on medical devices linking not just scientists and entrepreneurs but Germany and the United States has unveiled its first results.

China needs a better return on its fast-rising investments in R&D and higher education if it is to become an “innovation-oriented” economy by 2020, OECD.

Others in Europe may envy the UK’s professionalised approach to tech transfer via a band of quoted commercialisation companies. But does it work?

The proposed merger of two Karlsruhe institutions could lead the way to greater international prestige for Germany’s universities.

The EU industry body for bioindustries has responded to the energy and climate change package currently under discussion in the European Parliament.

Don’t mistake science policy for innovation policy, says Richard Halkett,from NESTA, the UK’s National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts.

When Lita Nelsen, director of MIT’s technology licensing office, is asked whether MIT has an incubator, she responds, “Yes, it’s called the city of Cambridge.” Lori Valigra looks at how MIT's environment drives entrepreneurship.

The UK's seven research councils have set out a strategy to internationalise their activities to pull in more researchers from overseas and enable cross country funding of projects.

Local authorities of the four south Polish districts of Silesia, Lesser Poland, Opole and Lower Silesia signed an agreement earlier this month to form an Innovation Highway.

Stockholm’s biomedical university is looking to double its seed capital to get discoveries to market, according to President Harriet Wallberg-Henriksson.

Considering R&D collaboration in China? Look before you leap, say innovation consultants Taco C.R. van Someren and Shuhua van Someren-Wang. Mistakes can cost millions.

Inward investment and high-tech start-ups are seen as key ingredients of the knowledge economy. But the two are not compatible, says new research

“What we need is not more patents, but more good patents” – the battle cry of the new President of the European Patent Office, Alison Brimelow.