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Everyone has an opinion on the scope of the EU’s new innovation institute. Some of the best ideas can be found close to home, Christian Ehler MEP tells Science|Business

At the World Economic Forum in Davos this week there is no little excitement – and some fretting – over the rise of smart machines

Men are much more likely to get money to found companies than women. More women are needed in the start-up world and there should be greater financial support to encourage this, say MEPs

Industry, universities and research institutes invited to submit proposals by the summer

Electricity companies across Europe are increasing research budgets and beginning to finance incubators and accelerators, and to invest in innovative start-ups

Imperial Innovations and the European Investment Fund are each to put £24.75M into the University College London fund UK, which will be managed by the VC firm Albion Ventures

Education minister Sander Dekker will push to make more journal papers free to publicly-funded researchers during the Netherlands’ presidency of the EU Council

A new structure for DG Sante was adopted by Commissioners yesterday and is effective from 1 February

The BioPontis Alliance hopes its new model for bringing patients’ insights and industry expertise to bear in preclinical research will reduce risk and promote development of rare disease therapies. The Alliance has funding from a Belgian charity for its first project

The Commission has set out possible scenarios for the new EU institute