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Science|Business speaks to Professor Matthias Kleiner, President of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, about the impact of the Excellence Initiative on German higher education.

The new Karlsruhe Institute of Technology is the most dramatic example of Germany's attempt to break down walls within academia.

The European Research Area is too fractured and much by inward-looking national priorities, an advisory body warns, urging a fundamental shift in the way research is done.

Interim Director Jack Metthey tells Science|Business he is banishing the red tape that threatens to undermine the European Research Council’s hard-earned reputation for funding excellent research.

Strengthen research policy and step up the building of the European Research Area, Janez Potočnik tells ministers as he comes to the end his term as Commissioner

The countries of the World Intellectual Property Organisation last week suspended the earliest of the three acts that govern the International Deposit of Industrial Designs.

A £25 million centre at Queen’s University Belfast will gather together expertise in data security, network security, wireless network enabled systems and surveillance intelligence systems.

Cambridge’s Institute for Manufacturing has produced a new guide to show how to follow in the footsteps of firms that have embraced open innovation.

Financial services company Citi has opened a $24 million centre in Dublin to develop next-generation intelligent payments systems and other products.

The UK has began a consultation on a new system for assessing the quality of university research that will also take into account the quality of tech transfer.