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Battery capacity has been blamed for holding back innovation in many fields, from renewable energy to mobiles. Now nanotech is providing the answer.

The Cambridge-MIT Institute has spun out its Communications Research Network project as a company to step up the pace of innovation in communications.

Economic disparity across Europe's regions can be linked directly to investment in research and development and adoption of information technologies, says an official report.

Funds should start flowing at the start of 2007 in the €50 billion Framework Programme 7 after the European Parliament approved the budget.

York University's Centre for Novel Agricultural Products has won a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to complete research into an antimalarial plant.

With the end of easy oil, French oil services giant Schlumberger Clamart Technology Centre is transforming its research and development activities.

Novartis’s move to take over UK biotech NeuTec Pharma at a large premium highlights how the so-called “superbugs” have reinvigorated pharma’s interest in antibiotics.

Carlos Moreira, co-founder and chairman of Swiss data-encryption firm WISekey, talks to Science|Business editor Richard L. Hudson on the travails of entrepreneurship.

Civo BioScreening is looking for strategic partnerships to help it take forward its novel polymer screening technology.

Innate Pharma SA has applied for an initial public offering and listing on the Euronext in Paris, to raise funds to expand its pipeline of oncology therapeutics.

The European Commission launched a nine-week internet consultation with experts and the public, soliciting views on how to improve the welfare of laboratory animals.

It may not be possible to write a rulebook on how to innovate, but there is no harm in reading attempts to do so.

Wine and biotechnology come together in yet another genome project.

The University of Manchester is launching a £10 million research centre for developing sustainable energy technologies.

IBM offers a few details of its new consultancy service for R&D management. Pity about the jargon.

European Union has voted to continue funding embryonic stem cell research after a heated debate at the European Parliament on Tuesday.

USA Today reports declining R&D budgets in the USA, albeit in, it seems, just one tech sector.

For a bunch of IT experts, the EU's IST World has come up with a baffling web site, especially when the idea is to make life easy for beginners.

Cuts in federal funding have forced UC Berkeley's RAD Lab to seek industry funding. But the money may not be enough to plug the gap.