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Local authorities of the four south Polish districts of Silesia, Lesser Poland, Opole and Lower Silesia signed an agreement earlier this month to form an Innovation Highway.

Managing clinical trials is, for the pharmaceutical industry, a growing headache in Europe. One key to the problem: the teaching hospital.

Stockholm’s biomedical university is looking to double its seed capital to get discoveries to market, according to President Harriet Wallberg-Henriksson.

GM crop bans have compromised arable farmers and plant research in Europe. Now the speed of GM adoption elsewhere is threatening Europe’s livestock agriculture too.

Considering R&D collaboration in China? Look before you leap, say innovation consultants Taco C.R. van Someren and Shuhua van Someren-Wang. Mistakes can cost millions.

Inward investment and high-tech start-ups are seen as key ingredients of the knowledge economy. But the two are not compatible, says new research

“What we need is not more patents, but more good patents” – the battle cry of the new President of the European Patent Office, Alison Brimelow.

Poland has set out a strategy for developing nanosciences prepared by 14 members of the Interdisciplinary Group for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology.

The preliminary findings of an investigation into the innovation performance of Russia and Ukraine placed them 27th and 35th respectively out of 36 countries considered in the study.

Germany’s largest research funding organisation, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, elected eight new members to its Senate at its general assembly in Bonn.