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Research costs are up 47% - and a new EU study analyses why

Cloud computing has become a standard way of working online – and a Science|Business seminar in the European Parliament looked at the impact on small companies

Entrepreneurs from the United Kingdom gained the most nominations at this year’s Academic Enterprise Awards. Three UK spin-outs are among the top 12 chosen to go through to final awards in Brussels on 21 February, 2012.

The UK may have used its veto on treaty change, but it will support increased spending on R&D from 2014 – 2020, as proposed in Horizon 2020. Cutting agriculture subsidies could pay for this, Business Minister Vince Cable tells Science|Business

A Finnish liquid biofuels project has started a researcher exchange with the American Energy Biosciences Institute.

Scottish biologist Anne Glover, named EU Chief Scientific Advisor, will face major challenges to be a ‘voice of science’ in Brussels

The EC’s research plan projects a tripling of the new agency’s innovation networks

Small companies attract special attention - and at least €6.8 billion - in the Commission’s new research plan

The EU’s new funding plan promises a big drop in paperwork and bureaucracy for grant applicants and recipients - but the details will matter

A two-year political fight formally began in Brussels on 30 November with the publication of the European Commission’s plan for Horizon 2020, its omnibus R&D programme. It promises less red tape, broader benefits, and more jobs and economic growth – but is it too expensive?