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After a public peer review, the European Research Area Board's recommendations for improving innovation in Europe have been published.

The European Medicines Agency and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration have extended the confidentiality arrangements under which they share information.

Norway has signed up to take part in the EU’s Galileo satellite navigation system, agreeing to contribute €70 million and to host two ground stations.

Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn has appointed a group of scientists to identify new members for the governing council of the European Research Council.

EU researchers are to get sustainable and continuous access to the combined processing power of over 200,000 desktop computers in more than 30 European countries.

Excellence - not geography - should determine where Europe spends its research budget, Greek MEP and professor Ioannis Tsouklas tells Science|Business.

The European Parliament has voted to adopt a new law on the use animals in research, aimed at reducing the number of animals used in experiments in laboratories in the EU.

Andreu Mas-Colell resigned from his post on September 1, as the European Research Council prepares to appoint a new director.

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.