Search

Europe needs to knock down national boundaries, share technology and build a competitive defence industry, Commissioner Gunter Verheugen told the recent European Defence Agency conference in Brussels

A new report from the OECD makes uncomfortable reading for anyone in Switzerland involved in educational R&D.

Who cares about Brussels? Apparently scientists do, with over 200,000 application forms for its €4 billion fund already downloaded. What next? Commissioner Janez Potočnik wants an EU-wide debate.

Under pressure to demonstrate economic returns on research spending, the UK’s research councils are going to make academics think commercial and to cosy up to industry.

The Lisbon strategy aim of making Europe the leading knowledge-based economy remains a far-off aspiration. Now the UK wants a fresh approach to the single market to move things forward.

In the lean years since the post-genomics bust, venture funding has been hard to come by for Europe’s biotech start-ups. Now they have polished up their business models, and valuations are low, attracting investors back in.