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New university league table places Belgian university at top of 100 list. Germany does best overall, while Sweden and Finland have no institutions in the ranking

The research unit is in close association with Nokia Bell Labs.

The nomination process for Karolinska Institutet’s next vice-chancellor is underway, and this summer an application committee will be seeking out candidates before the interview process commences in August.

The arrival of thousands of non-EU migrants to Sweden coincides with a labor shortage in the country’s expanding IT sector. So KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm is doing its part to fill the gap.

Prospective candidates can submit their applications until 22 June

On 21 June, the Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum launches a report based on the world’s largest entrepreneurship survey Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM). The report looks at how has entrepreneurial activity promoted industrial activity and built competitive strength since 2000.

Given the “cautionary tale” of how the Swiss freedom of movement referendum led to immediate cuts in EU R&D grants, the UK government should be ready to step in with national funding, says science committee

After raiding Horizon 2020 funds, the European Fund for Strategic Investments is attracting private investment and on course to reach its €315B target. But the low risk projects it is financing are not wholly innovative - only one involves a research organisation

Sheila Rowan, an award-winning experimental physicist, fills the vacancy after an 18-month gap

Three-month start-up support programme looking for a new crop of companies in Germany and Kenya

Registration is now open for the second International Network for Government Science Advice Conference on science and policymaking, which will take place on 29 and 30 September in Brussels

A hi-tech improvement to the surgical implantation of pacemakers into patients with heart failure is being pioneered by specialists at Guy’s and St Thomas’, using software developed by clinicians and engineers at King’s College London

Red Points is a tech company specialised in protecting digital assets and brands sold online

Professor Mark Lythgoe (UCL Centre for Advanced Biomedical Imaging) has been announced as the new Chair of the Times Cheltenham Science Festival

Over the past year, the University of Luxembourg has considerably enhanced its international standing.

European Commission acknowledges its Blue Card scheme has underwhelmed, as it sets out new proposals to relax permit rules and ease access

The European Innovation Council should not obsess over Europe’s lack of billion-dollar companies. Instead, it should stick to getting small details right, says entrepreneur Piotr Jakubowiczi

EU publishes 109 comments on its plan to form a European Innovation Council – and most support the idea so long as it doesn’t eat up existing EU research funds and awards grants faster

Nine universities team up to talk up research in Europe and boost the profile of several countries’ capabilities

After four years of falling revenues, the old-stager of the computer industry is remaking itself around the artificial intelligence machine Watson. A new lab in Munich will spearhead the strategy of using AI to make sense of data from billions of internet-connected devices