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Barroso is continuing a personal search to find the right candidate for the €200,000 science advisor post

Six advanced computing projects have been shortlisted to compete for EU Flagship status and access to total funding of €1 billion. The six have been awarded €1.5 million each to develop their programmes before two winners are selected in 12 months time

During a recent speech Bob Dudley, Group CEO for BP, said that he expects the oil industry to keep exploring new ways to extract fossil fuels in order to help fulfil the world's energy needs

Three ambitious pan-European biological sciences research infrastructures have been given the green light. At the same time the European Strategy Forum has added three energy projects - costing €1.2 billion - to its wish list of infrastructures

The first phase of a €600 million public-private partnership to build the Internet of the Future, with the capacity to transmit data from mobile phones and embedded devices is launched

The idea of an experimental use exception to patent infringement under US law does not exist in a viable way. This is true even for academic and other non-profit entity researchers in many settings.