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The European Innovation Council should not obsess over Europe’s lack of billion-dollar companies. Instead, it should stick to getting small details right, says entrepreneur Piotr Jakubowiczi

EU publishes 109 comments on its plan to form a European Innovation Council – and most support the idea so long as it doesn’t eat up existing EU research funds and awards grants faster

Preliminary proposal would base the new council on Horizon 2020’s SME Instrument

“I’m offering to come to Brussels and demonstrate on my (or your) laptop the value of text and data mining for open science,” says Peter Murray-Rust of Cambridge University, as he presses the EU to go further on copyright reform

Innovation and research are distinct activities. If Europe is to extract greater value from its science we need an independent European Innovation Council, with a different brief from the European Institute of Innovation and Technology, and separate from the European Research Council

The EU Research Commissioner may have correctly identified the reasons for Europe’s failure to commercialise its science, but setting up a new agency that separates innovation from research is not the answer, says Estonian MEP Kaja Kallas

EU Research Commissioner today described the attributes around which he would like the Council to be shaped and launched a consultation seeking feedback from the public. It’s time for action to convert Europe’s world-leading science into products, he said

Members of the Science|Business Network say the new council should act like a venture capital investor rather than a government agency. The aim should be to provide flexible funding and spur regulatory reform

The new EU institute should ensure grant money is handed out faster, Commissioners have a better source of advice and that legislative logjams hampering companies are identified quicker, says Philippe De Backer, MEP

The EU needs a US-style chief technology officer at the head of the new innovation body, says Martin Curley, Intel vice president. The council should also provide more incentives for applied research