Cristina Jiménez

Fewer taxes and more university spin-outs are needed to help maintain Denmark’s position among EU innovators.

In the second part of its series looking at science in Spain, Science|Business looks at how facing up to budget cuts has put the spotlight on structural reform.

As the Spanish goverment looks to reduce its budget deficit, government spending on R&D will fall by more than 8 per cent next year, according to one analysis.

The EIT’s energy project begins its task of creating a European ecosystem for funding sustainable energy start-ups today.

ESADE is the only business school to be a named partner in an EIT project. It sees this as central to its work to promote innovation.

Times may be hard, but it remains possible to be innovative, Henry Chesbrough, the father of Open Innovation and ESADE Visiting Professor, tells Science|Business.

The science of the very small needs big, expensive instruments. More coordination is needed in Europe to translate basic research through to commercialisation.

European Union Health Ministers have signed up to promote the free movement of electronic patient records across Europe.

Although the free mobility of researchers within the EU was one of the priorities of the ERA at its creation in 2000, many obstacles to mobility remain.

As the Spanish government prepares to take on the EU Presidency, proposed cuts to its national R&D budget could undermine the EU’s innovation rhetoric.