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For the third year running the countries of north east Asia have upped their patent applications, shifting the international balance in innovation.

A battle over the future of scientific publishing is shaping up in Brussels, as leading publishers tell the Commission to butt out

Finland’s universities are banding together to establish a national network for cooperation in life sciences, Biocenter Finland.

The UK government has announced it is investing £8.7 million in an Airbus-led project to develop simulation software for aircraft design.

The first programme in a multinational scheme to generate vaccines needed in the developing world by guaranteeing a market in advance of their development has got under way.

With £125 billion a year to throw around, shouldn't the UK government think "innovation" a bit more when it opens the public purse? NESTA thinks so.

You would think that the launch of Framework 7 would be an opportunity to publicise the virtues of science. On the other hand, if you’re the UK government, maybe not.

It turned out to be a false alarm.

Innovation policy needs to be tailored to take account of complexity and prevent neighbouring regions competing for the same resources

We would like to bring you news of the UK launch of Framework Programme 7, but we can’t because the press was not invited to the event. Instead, here’s the media release.

A nuclear research facility is to be established in the north of England with £20 million from the University of Manchester and the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority.

Exclusive: Cambridge Enterprise, after a 45 per cent revenue rise, is seeking extra funding for its university spin-outs