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Harvard economist Michael Porter argues that, to improve performance, healthcare systems need to measure not what goes in, but what comes out. A movement to focus more on such ‘patient outcomes’ is gathering speed in Europe

The world needs a global plan to tackle antimicrobial resistance. Alongside a $2B fund to jump-start innovation there should be a $1B reward for companies when a new antibiotic is launched, says Jim O’Neill, chair of the review

The new body will absorb seven research councils, covering all scientific disciplines, and the innovation agency Innovate UK, with the aim of creating integrated funding system

Science funding from the EU supports world-class science in Britain and masks weak investment from the government

Bart Biebuyck leaves Toyota’s in house fuel cell research department to lead the Fuel Cell and Hydrogen project

In the coming years, KU Leuven will partner with six universities in Budapest, Ljubljana, and Prague. “Rough diamonds,” according to Rector Rik Torfs: “We can help them realise their potential.”

GE Healthcare Life Sciences continues to invest in Uppsala. The company signs a two-year collaboration agreement with Uppsala BIO

Tore Curstedt at Karolinska Institutet’s Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery has been nominated by the European Patent Office for a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2016 European Inventor Award ceremony for his work with 'Curosurf'

The University of Pisa is benefiting from an extensive framework of cooperation with the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia

A second no-confidence motion laid down by fringe members of the Parliament against the Juncker Commission is certain to fail – but it raises pressure on the executive over long-awaited criteria for risky chemicals

As US universities expand into Asia and the Middle East, a survey of 47 heads of higher education reveals frustration at the pace of change in Europe. So are European institutions innovating enough to remain competitive?

Assistant professor Marco Hutter develops walking robots that move like living creatures. One day his machines might be able to carry out the menial and dangerous work human beings would rather avoid

Current chair of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures takes over the mega science facility in November

The company’s artificial intelligence division to get access to a wide pool of data from London hospitals

Robert Madelin, adviser on innovation at the European Political Strategy Centre says the new advice body has introduced talent and ideas - and has the ear of President Juncker.

Scientists say strict limits on using animals in the lab hurt scientific research

Mathematicians from 12 countries haved launched a massive mathematical database of mathematical objects including elliptic curves, and a special class of zeroes, that has already been deployed to protect our bank accounts and solve mathematical problems in physics and in prime number theory.

A cross-industry group, of which the Nickel Institute is part, has launched website in support of better regulation initiative for chemicals management

Expertise of Aalto community members in ten teaching innovations accepted to the HundrED project.