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13 new members added in past year to network uniting industry, research and policy

New economic review by Science|Business finds strong evidence of R&D impact – but huge variation in estimates, and uncertainty over which programmes work best

More training to help scientists tunnel through data mountains is badly needed, says Tony Hey, an e-science pioneer. Hey spoke at a recent conference of the ATTRACT open innovation consortium.

Dectris builds its X-ray detector technology into a €30M market niche

Researchers tell MEPs that audit culture, reimbursement system, and evaluation criteria for eastern countries should be reformed

This year’s EU innovation scoreboard shows big differences between member states remain

A comprehensive database of 900 European research infrastructures will allow scientists to access resources, services and facilities of which they may previously have been unaware

Higher health care expenditure was associated with lower amenable mortality (that is, rates of the deaths that are potentially preventable with available treatments) in seventeen European countries, according to a new study

A study by researchers at the universities of Plymouth and Exeter found that older people are not being referred for mental health support nearly as frequently as their younger counterparts, despite the fact that they achieve better outcomes when they are referred

A randomised clinical trial of 766 patients has shown that a simple intervention - a web-based tool that enables patients to report their symptoms in real time, triggering alerts to clinicians -can have major benefits, including longer survival