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Jozef Cornu, an Alcatel-Lucent director, argues that Europe can repeat its GSM success story in other technology fields – if the EU acts fast.

Despite their new legal status, French universities are still characterised by overcrowded classrooms, underpaid professors and bureaucracy. So, plus ça change?

A collaboration on medical devices linking not just scientists and entrepreneurs but Germany and the United States has unveiled its first results.

Europe’s 36 national computing grids are hatching plans to link up their networks and support the set-up and initiation of new grid initiatives.

The League of European Research Universities says the Commission’s recently published Green Paper on the European Research Area lacks vision and builds too strongly on the existing framework.

China needs a better return on its fast-rising investments in R&D and higher education if it is to become an “innovation-oriented” economy by 2020, OECD.

Others in Europe may envy the UK’s professionalised approach to tech transfer via a band of quoted commercialisation companies. But does it work?