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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

The Finnish nanotechnology industry is in a boom phase, with the number of companies involved in the sector growing by 111 per cent in the past two years.

It’s easy to produce papers and make recommendations, says former Finnish prime minister Esko Aho. Now we need practical results.

YouTube, MySpace – those are some of the hottest properties on the Internet these days. They may also be the working definition of demand-side innovation,

European pharma and biotech companies are behind the US. But in one shining area, Europe has outpaced the US in creating a new sector: biosimilars.

The latest buzzword among Brussels technocrats is “lead markets”. And it’s going to be put into action, on an experimental basis, in 2007.

2006 was a record year for business start-ups in Ireland.

The value of R&D coming out of US universities is increasing. And the question of exactly how Europe measures up in comparison may soon be answered.

The band of UK quoted tech commercialisation companies has another member. Ipso Ventures joined the AIM market, raising £4.5 million.

Innovation policy is hot in Brussels, says Science|Business editor Richard L. Hudson. Hot enough for so a confusing array of proposals, white papers, conferences and task forces.

As it engages with global markets India’s self-interests in IP are shifting. The result is a surge in litigation as differences of opinion emerge within local companies, think tanks and advocacy groups.

A new and fast-growing sector of the private equity market aims to fund companies that put sustainability at their heart. A first survey of the field shows how.