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Board announce that Andrew Blake will serve as first Institute director

But US continues to dominate in World Economic Forum’s award series; more money and bigger market ‘remain decisive’ for tech firms

EU membership is overwhelmingly positive for our institutes say university heads, as new campaign to protect £1.2B per annum of European research funding gets into gear this week

Martin Rees, UK Astronomer Royal tells Science|Business why it is important to bring entrepreneurial cash and the principles of open innovation to bear on one of the biggest questions in science: Are we alone?

New crowdfunding effort aims to clean up smog-choked areas

The European Strategy and Policy Analysis System (ESPAS) will continue its mission under new leadership, with plans to increase its global standing in policy analysis and foresight

Dutch secret service say Ivan Agafonov was identified after he met a diplomat who was under surveillance in Germany

An innovative new Consortium will act as a ‘match-making’ service between pharmaceutical companies and researchers in Cambridge with the aim of developing and studying precision medicines for some of the most globally devastating diseases.

The first competition opened this week, with two more scheduled for October

The collaboration aims to enhance disease understanding and increase the pace of discovery of new therapeutics

The Imperial Incubator celebrated its spinout companies' extraordinary growth at a special 'graduation' event yesterday.

The finance-boosting InnovFin scheme expands, with the addition of three new facilities

Testers should maintain car ‘black boxes’, prepare for hackers, and ensure full ability to manually take over controls.

As civil servants from the EU’s research directorate prepare to slink off to sunnier climates, the Research Commissioner suggests brain food to add to suitcases

Fresh data from the European Commission shows there is an increase in new female graduates. But a lack of women in leadership roles is a continuing problem, says Curt Rice, who leads Norway's committee on gender balance in research

Nature Photonics has published a study by group of researchers from Rome's Sapienza University, in collaboration with the Radboud University of Nijmegen and the Politecnico di Milano. The research shows that in the future it will be possible to store data at speeds ten thousand times higher than those achievable with our current technology.

The University of Luxembourg and the Institute of Socio-Economic Research LISER (formerly CEPS/Instead) are to create and fund four joint professorships.

Dutch ESA Business Incubation Centre start-up company Lens Research & Development has been awarded the title of Most Innovative Company in the Netherlands as the winner of the first Shell LiveWire Rising Star competition.

Hammersmith and Fulham Council has granted planning permission for construction of the Michael Uren Biomedical Engineering Research Hub.