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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

Climate-KIC, the EU’s main climate innovation initiative, is set to kick-off its activities in Sweden this week with a conference at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg.

With an era of deep sea mining being ushered in, a new breed of robots developed in the UK are poised to lead the way

In blocking the Citizen’s Initiative calling for an end to funding, the Commission has renewed its support for embryonic stem cell funding

Rather than being fixated on out-ranking the rankings, the aim should be to get the EU’s new university league table to work in and for Europe, says Ellen Hazelkorn, Director of Ireland’s Higher Education Policy Research Unit

The €200 million AXA Research Fund backs fundamental science linked to health, environmental and socio-economic risks

The voting pattern of Eurosceptic MEPs reveals that radical parties rarely agree on research, technology and innovation policies, as a Science|Business analysis shows

Research and innovation is low on the agenda for MEPs elected to represent radical parties – if it features at all. With the EU’s new legislature facing an array of science-related policy, will this disinterest matter?

A band of enthusiastic reformers want to see more problem-solving lessons on school curricula

Familiar faces will return, while others, including the current chair of the ITRE committee, wave their handkerchiefs to Brussels

Current methods for treating salt water to make it drinkable are energy-intensive, require harsh chemicals and produce waste – but new technologies that reduce the environmental impact of desalination are in the pipeline.