US funding agencies are turning to a Silicon Valley entrepreneur to focus fledgling biomedical companies on success — even when that means making a scientific course correction.

This article investigates the Innovation Union Scoreboard (IUS) as a tool to carry out case studies about national innovation capacities in the case of given countries..

A patent system that is so broken that almost no patented discoveries ever get used.

Christoph Keese, Manager at Axel Springer publishing house, published his experiences of living in Silicon Valley in a book.

U.S. science lobbyists coined the phrase "innovation deficit" last year

Reply to a recent opinion stating that creativity was being suppressed in science.

If so, the current funding system shares much of the blame.

Nobelpreisträger Edmund Phelps spricht Europa Innovationskraft ab. Die Menschen seien zu behütet. Der Kontinent lebe von der Substanz.

If everyone likes your research, you can be certain that you have not done anything important. That is the first thing to grasp. Conflict goes with the territory. Innovation comes when universities encourage risk-taking, says Andrew Oswald.

The biggest thing holding invention back is our impatience. With enough time and support, young engineers will develop the technology we need.

Brian D. Wright and colleagues present data challenging the assumption that corporate-funded academic research is less accessible and useful to others.

Leonid Gokhberg and Dirk Meissner compare accounts on the trajectory of innovation in two towering economies.

Physicists and engineers must do more than peddle ideas if their technologies are to translate effectively beyond the lab, says Hans Zappe.