Anna Jenkinson

EU rules on R&D funding are too onerous, MEP Jorgo Chatzimarkakis tells Science|Business’s Anna Jenkinson.

Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases are Europe’s latest big health issue, new MEP Antonio Fernando Correia de Campos tells Science|Business.

Gains in innovation performance up to 2008 may have been buried by the economic crisis according to the 2009 Innovation Scoreboard.

The first €1M grants from the EIT will be signed next week. Now the real work begins, chairman Martin Schuurmans tells Science|Business.

Europe is always an also-ran in ICT: New Commissioner Neelie Kroes tells Science|Business how she plans to reverse two decades of failure.

On her first day in office Geoghegan-Quinn promises to bring a “fresh mind” and an appetite for change – starting with the rebranding of Framework.

A meeting of EU ministers has approved the “Donostia Declaration”, defining the role it expects science to play in economic recovery.

The President of the European Research Council and Chair of its Scientific Council is stepping down a year before the end of his term.

A new integrated industrial strategy will deliver growth whilst tackling climate change, promises Commissioner-designate Antonio Tajani.

Completing the ERA, simplifying Framework, the European Innovation Act and delivering the European Patent among the pledges made to MEPs.