As Research Commissioner Carlos Moedas advances plans for a new body to support innovation, the European Association of Research and Technology Associations backs the proposal and says there should be a wide remit
25 spin-offs were founded at ETH Zurich last year – more than ever before in a single year. The new record highlights the benefits of supporting young talent early on and illustrates that ETH’s own support programme is paying off.
WMG at the University of Warwick is to play a significant role in a new £23 million interdisciplinary Research Hub designed to drive forward UK research in the Internet of Things (IoT).
As 2016 gets under way, the EU Research Commissioner will start to lay the foundations for an ambitious new institute. The aim is to create a cohesive pan-European body for innovation that will parallel what the European Research Council has done for science
King’s College London joined a UK government delegation looking to build stronger education, science, research and innovation ties with India this week.
EU legislators have removed a controversial amendment to new data privacy law which would have imperilled efforts to use personal data for large studies
Several big hurdles have recently been cleared, but a new court system still needs to be accepted by 5 participating countries before the new intellectual property regime can come to life
Since her term as President of the European Research Council ended in 2013, Helga Nowotny has turned author. Her book on the role of uncertainty in science, The Cunning of Uncertainty, has just been published. Science|Business spoke to her at the recent Innovation Conference in Barcelona
The new method is based on Birefringence, the ability of substances to change the polarisation state of light. With this method, doctors around the world can easily, rapidly and reliably detect malaria, Ebola or HIV to name only a few.
Businesses and researchers hoping to understand where they can get help in using precision medicine will find the task easier from today thanks to the publication of an online map of the landscape.
Researchers will be given freedom to interrogate and search articles currently locked behind journal paywalls. But scientists want faster progress and publishers say the Commission should move carefully when proposing changes to copyright law
The University of Cambridge is launching a new research centre, thanks to a £10 million grant from the Leverhulme Trust, to explore the opportunities and challenges to humanity from the development of artificial intelligence.
The well-attended kick-off event of the Graphene Centre at Chalmers took place in the student union building on 2 December. Among the participants were Chalmers president Stefan Bengtsson and Avgust Yurgens, professor at MC2.
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