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Think carefully: what can a European Innovation Council add?

Setting up a body to do for innovation what the European Research Council has done for science won’t work. Support for research and support for innovation are two different realms, Peter Tindemans, secretary general of Euroscience tells Science|Business

UK scientists throw weight behind EU membership

Submissions to an ongoing House of Lords inquiry point to massive support for EU membership among UK scientists, universities, medical research charities and industry, while the campaign group Vote Leave has set out its view on why an exit from the EU would benefit UK science

Moedas advances plans for new European Innovation Council

As 2016 gets under way, the EU Research Commissioner will start to lay the foundations for an ambitious new institute. The aim is to create a cohesive pan-European body for innovation that will parallel what the European Research Council has done for science

Unitary European patent system tiptoes closer

Several big hurdles have recently been cleared, but a new court system still needs to be accepted by 5 participating countries before the new intellectual property regime can come to life

Uncertainty? Definitely

Since her term as President of the European Research Council ended in 2013, Helga Nowotny has turned author. Her book on the role of uncertainty in science, The Cunning of Uncertainty, has just been published. Science|Business spoke to her at the recent Innovation Conference in Barcelona

EU Commission sets out plan to allow free data mining

Researchers will be given freedom to interrogate and search articles currently locked behind journal paywalls. But scientists want faster progress and publishers say the Commission should move carefully when proposing changes to copyright law