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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

Europe’s companies increasingly recognise that they need to switch from fierce protection to licensing widely to generate revenues.

Science is an international affair, of course. But a few recent news tidbits highlight just how fast that international dimension is expanding.

Everybody wants more energy research – so why isn’t it coming fast enough?

The latest OECD research on Japan provides a warning to Europe that merely spending more does not make innovation spring forth.

A conference in Brussels separates the fact from myth in technology transfer.

For six years, policy-makers around Europe have been talking about the “Lisbon Agenda”. Is anybody listening? Even in Lisbon?

Forget the Nasdaq. We at Science|Business have invented our own index of technology markets. We call it the Innovation Index.

US streets paved with venture-capital gold? That would come as a surprise to most American entrepreneurs, says Jonathan Zuck.

Traditional innovation has been about creating something new that an individual can pay for. That’s no longer enough, says Mats Williander.