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An experimental economics study at the University of Bologna explains why northern and southern Italians behave differently when it comes to cooperating and trusting others.

Joanne O’Dea recognised as best newcomer at Association of British Science Writers awards

German start-up’s technology removes the guesswork – if not the controversy - and passes its test in Brazil. Next challenge: the offside rule

Belgian pharma company UCB will receive the ‘at risk co-development funding’ to directly finance six drug projects, in a deal the bank says showcases the new InnovFin scheme’s aim of boosting European innovation

“Internal demonstration of strength and active choices”. It’s a question of opting in and opting out for the Karolinska Institutet over the next five years. On 28 April, the Board pushed through the new strategy document “Strategy 2018”. It will be implemented in September on a broad front in the organisation.

Exceptional inventors from Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, UK, Japan and the US honoured with European Inventor Award 2014

King’s College London and the University of Warwick, in partnership with New York University, plan a major initiative in collaboration with the GLA and Southwark Council to launch 'CUSP London', a branch of NYU’s Center for Urban Science and Progress to be based at Canada Water from 2018.

Imperial Innovations is pleased to note that one of its portfolio of companies, PsiOxus Therapeutics, a biotechnology company developing innovative new treatments for cancer today announced the first dosing of a patient in the OCTAVE (Ovarian Cancer Treated with Adeno Vaccine Enadenotucirev) study.

The EU-funded BASTION project aims to build relationships between science and industry and promote the translation of cancer research into new treatments. A number of obstacles must be removed before true collaboration can flourish

When entrepreneur Hermann Hauser laid the foundations for the UK’s Catapult research initiatives, he held up Germany’s Fraunhofer institutes as role models. The UK now has both models in action

No country in the world is prepared for the digital era. We urgently need an Apollo-like programme and a Space Agency for ICT with a mission to develop the institutions and information infrastructures for the emerging digital society, says Dirk Helbing

Top EU officials reiterate the need for member states to invest in innovation in order to close the gap

Analysis says that nonchalance over UK’s standing in a “Brexit” scenario is dangerous, with innovation likely to suffer

Edvard and May-Britt Moser, co-directors of the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, have been selected for the €750 000 award from the Hamburg, Germany based Körber Foundation.

With Simon Lilly and Timothy Eglinton, the renowned Royal Society has elected two ETH professors as Fellows at the same time.

The programme is free of charge for participants and has a budget of 30,000 euros to put toward the launch and acceleration of the participants' business initiatives