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Europe’s biggest-ever private financing round by a biotech doesn’t mean the capital drought is over, says Martin Edwards of Novo Ventures.

As the financial crisis forces governments across the European Union to cut spending on scientific research, will Europe’s 110,000 foundations and charities, which control assets of €350 billion, fill the gap? This is the question being asked by European Commission officials as they seek to fuel further investment in research and innovation

The European Research Council has appointed new members of its governing Scientific Council, while it is still uncertain how the organisation should be run as a whole.

More recognition of Alzheimer’s disease and more research funding is needed, says the European Parliament.

In an move to streamline cross border cancer research, Europe's leading cancer organisations will be collaborating in the EU funded EurocanPlatform project.

Construction of the Finish part of the pan-European biomedical research infrastructures has begun, funded by a national programme.

As part of a major reorganisation, Japanese electronics company Hitachi plans to increase its number of R&D personnel in Europe.

Additional funding is needed to complete the infrastructure of Europe's satellite navigation project, says the European Commission in a progress report.

A spin-out from Cambridge University has secured a major investment for an electronic display manufacturing plant in Russia.

The R&D budget is slashed, but there’s a silver lining to the economic crisis as the costs of innovation, entrepreneurship and building new companies are reduced.