Richard L. Hudson

Advocates for cross-sectoral R&D support fear a downgrade in the new Commission – but in individual areas such as energy, digital technologies, and pharmaceuticals, a stronger emphasis on growth and investment is good news for many

Science|Business begins a series of viewpoints on the ethical dimensions of Europe’s biggest R&D programme

Despite the turmoil, Egyptian researchers and entrepreneurs try to spur innovations. The EU’s Horizon 2020 aims to help.

The Commission has started re-organising its main department for research and innovation. The objective, Director-General Robert-Jan Smits tells Science|Business, is better policy and more efficient grant handling

Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, new President of the ERC , tells Science|Business he is charting a ‘political’ course – to help boost science in Europe’s weaker regions, and to promote young scientists

The ‘democratic deficit’ in Brussels was all-too present in the shaping of Horizon 2020. Here’s what can be done to remedy the problem.

Success rates may drop to 15% from 20-22%, as EU officials brace for an unprecedented flood of applicants

Europe’s open research infrastructures want to up their profile, justify their public investment and open the doors to industry

Key documents for Horizon 2020 are circulating on the Internet. The Commission needs to put order into the timely and fair distribution of this information.

EU and US experts see big benefits from scientists sharing more data - but say global agreement on privacy, literacy and other issues is needed