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A new Centre for ICT innovation has opened at Imperial West in White City, it was announced on Thursday.

The study will offer an in-depth analysis of changes in work quality over the past decade, its influence on the current socioeconomic model, and its capacity to create value in the future

Wouter Vlemmings has received a grant worth 2 million euro (17 MSEK) from the European Research Council. For Wouter this means new possibilities in exploring how magnetic fields in space can reveal how stars are born – and how they die.

In 2014 Aalto University will launch the Aalto Nuclear Safety program, bringing the nuclear energy research and education into a common network.

To date, citizen science has focused on top-down science communication. But as the exemplar of astronomy highlights, amateur enthusiasts can make significant contributions. It’s time to capture this potential, to expand the scope and excellence of research, says Fermin Serrano

The European Research Council announced the first 312 winners of the Consolidator Grant competition. This new funding will allow researchers that are doing groundbreaking work to consolidate their scientific careers and to establish their own research teams.

Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, new President of the ERC , tells Science|Business he is charting a ‘political’ course – to help boost science in Europe’s weaker regions, and to promote young scientists

The first long-term U.S. field trials of Miscanthus x giganteus, a towering perennial grass used in bioenergy production, reveal that its exceptional yields, though reduced somewhat after five years of growth, are still more than twice those of switchgrass (Panicum virgatum), another perennial grass used as a bioenergy feedstock. Miscanthus grown in Illinois also outperforms even the high yields found in earlier studies of the crop in Europe, the researchers found.

Reform of public sector research has stalled, but financial woes have prompted the refocussing of private sector R&D - offering hope for a revival of investment and a spur to innovation

The ‘democratic deficit’ in Brussels was all-too present in the shaping of Horizon 2020. Here’s what can be done to remedy the problem.

Recent IEA publication details how to capitalise on new technologies

Recognising that innovation requires market acceptance, Horizon 2020 will invest €462 million over the next seven years on a new programme, ‘Science with and for society’. Science|Business looks at the plan for the first two years