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With resources and services stretched to their limits, future cities must be smarter. Cambridge professors Doug Crawford-Brown, Robert Mair and Koen Steemers describe the innovations in technology and governance needed to keep the megacity functional

Commission to form new group, bringing all interested parties round one table in attempt to speed up technical standard setting. The announcement follows pledge to create new standards for 5G, cloud computing and the internet of things

Copyright restrictions and an inflexible publisher licensing system are making European researchers hesitant to attempt analyses of large and disparate databases, according to Lisbon Council report

Science ministers tell publishers to ditch subscriptions and change their business models, but agree there should be caveats on open access to protect intellectual property rights, security and privacy

Preliminary proposal would base the new council on Horizon 2020’s SME Instrument

Taking money from Horizon 2020 has contributed to falling success rates in grant applications. The €2.2B funnelled to the Strategic Investment Fund should be restored to the programme in the budget review, say MEPs on the research committee

Member states to back both green and gold access and endorse move to end traditional subscription model, according to draft text

New study builds on similar findings by the US National Academy of Sciences, but environmental groups remain unconvinced

American biochemical engineer Frances Arnold is awarded the 2016 Millennium Technology Prize for path-breaking work on directed evolution

Students from Delft University think they can send passengers from Amsterdam to Paris in 30 minutes through high-speed tubes

The EU still has not learned basic lessons about innovation from its US competition. Professors Gunnar Landgren and Ramon Wyss, both instrumental in the formation of EIT Knowledge and Innovation Communities, explain how to remedy the European innovation paradox

Harvard economist Michael Porter argues that, to improve performance, healthcare systems need to measure not what goes in, but what comes out. A movement to focus more on such ‘patient outcomes’ is gathering speed in Europe

The world needs a global plan to tackle antimicrobial resistance. Alongside a $2B fund to jump-start innovation there should be a $1B reward for companies when a new antibiotic is launched, says Jim O’Neill, chair of the review

The new body will absorb seven research councils, covering all scientific disciplines, and the innovation agency Innovate UK, with the aim of creating integrated funding system