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Italian cleantech Watly launches search for funds through crowdfunding to test solar-powered device in Africa

“I’m offering to come to Brussels and demonstrate on my (or your) laptop the value of text and data mining for open science,” says Peter Murray-Rust of Cambridge University, as he presses the EU to go further on copyright reform

Fusion project faces further scrutiny after MEPs criticise project management

The days of open science have arrived and it is time to move from pay-to-read to free-to-read, says the R&D Commissioner. But publishers want to keep their subscriptions and applied research labs are concerned about IP

EU’s controversial billion-euro initiative invites scientists outside the project to use and test its computing platforms

The EU Commission is canvassing views on whether the process of assessing research projects should be more open to public eyes

Fears big data could affect insurance coverage and be used to track the performance of clinicians are holding back adoption. But big data means better data, according to speakers at a Science|Business conference

Innovation and research are distinct activities. If Europe is to extract greater value from its science we need an independent European Innovation Council, with a different brief from the European Institute of Innovation and Technology, and separate from the European Research Council

The four-year Gliomark project aims to develop and commercialise a novel diagnostic for brain cancer. It has been funded by the Horizon 2020 SME Instrument

A new survey by the one of Europe’s biggest crowdfunding platforms, Seedrs, finds business community evenly divided on EU membership

Entrepreneurs are made, not born. An award-winning Finnish scheme is teaching primary pupils entrepreneurial skills and instilling an entrepreneurial mindset

In a show of faith in European biomedical research, the pharma company is extending its open innovation approach and setting up a bioincubator at its campus in Beerse, Belgium. Start-ups using the facility will have access to expertise, equipment and funding

Science|Business wants to help innovators learn from the failures of others. Here, Anca Banita describes soldiering on after an attempt to raise money for an app promoting a nationwide clearance of illegal rubbish dumps in Romania flopped

The first of two joint European Space Agency–Roscosmos missions to Mars has begun a seven-month journey to the planet, where will it look for methane in the atmosphere and assess if the gas was generated by micro-organisms or is a result of geological activity

To fight growing antimicrobial resistance, the use of existing antimicrobial drugs should be restricted, and there should be incentives for new ones should be developed