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With growth forecasts sharply down from before the referendum, the pledge to balance the budget by 2020 is abandoned. New borrowing will allow for a Keynesian-style splurge on infrastructure and R&D

The EU Commission has proposed a European Open Science Cloud. Science|Business, following its September 20 members’ conference on the topic, offers this primer

Insolvency rule reshape a bid to save 200,000 companies a year

European Institute of Innovation and Technology picks TUMunich to lead a new food group, but rejects a separate bid to start an industrial project

Elisabeth Koffeman and Niels van Bakel, two researchers at the Dutch National Institute for Subatomic Physics (NIKEF), discuss x-ray CT scans, seismic sensors, and collaboration with industry

Europe has the opportunity to enhance its innovation capacity by strengthening cooperation between analytical research institutes and companies, providing industry with new ways to access expertise and powerful state of the art machines

According to new Nature Index, collaboration between scientists in the UK and those elsewhere in the EU increased over the past four years

Topping up the Juncker Plan would be premature and is not supported by evidence, concludes the European Court of Auditors. The Commission’s riposte is that the claim is “plain wrong”

The report outlines several possible actions that the Commission and member-states could take to coordinate their digital health policies better, including a three-year plan for action.