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One of the best features of Horizon 2020 risks becoming its fatal flaw. Open-ended competitions have resulted in a flood of doomed applications, some 80 pages in length. Proposals should be shorter, and call topics tightened

A new Science|Business analysis puts the spotlight on the most innovative clusters in Europe, uncovering what it takes to translate research from bench to bedside and highlighting the crucial need for policy support, innovation pull, and access to finance

Not content with helping his country throw off Soviet shackles and lay the ground for the tech revolution dubbed ‘E-stonia’, Jaak Aaviksoo is returning to school to help steer a new generation into doing it all over again

Data flows between Europe and US may be restricted following the judgement, with US tech giants being required to store all personal data belonging to Europeans on Europe-based servers

UK pharma company jumps on the open access R&D bandwagon, offering access to data on over 50 of its drugs, with the aim of inspiring new combination therapies for cancer

The chance of winning a research grant is stuck between 12% and 14%, with many excellent proposals being rejected, Robert-Jan Smits told MEPs this week

A new report throws light on the damaging outcomes when scientists ignore gender in their research

German physicist Christiane Heinicke is spending one year as a pretend-astronaut in a Mars simulation. She talks to Science|Business about her motivation for helping to prepare humans mentally for an historic journey to the red planet

Joint letter in August reveals European Institute of Innovation and Technology chiefs disagree with proposed changes to how their innovation clusters would operate. EIT says it's 'finalising the agreements'

The makeup of the new seven-strong Scientific Advice Mechanism will be announced by the end of October and open for business before the end of the year

The proposed independent court would replace the investor-state dispute settlement clause that has become the main obstacle in negotiating the EU-US Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership

The annual QS league table shows Asian institutes are making big gains. Meanwhile, Reuters launches its inaugural rankings, where universities with particular emphasis on science and technology score high

Ban will not extend to scientists, who may still use cloning technology as a research tool

The sinking of Nokia prompted the innovation and technology agency Tekes to move its chips onto video-gaming. The sector now accounts for 10% of the country’s IT output

His robot can build ‘children’ without human command, but Luzius Brodbeck says it demonstrates that creating truly sophisticated robots is so difficult there is no need to worry about them taking over the world