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Horizon 2020: A look at the first calls

“It’s time to get down to business,” said EU Commissioner for Research and Innovation, Máire Geoghegan Quinn, launching the first calls under the EU seven year flagship R&D programme, Horizon 2020.

Engineering a start-up revolution

The current US model for technology transfer isn’t working. Rather than depending on out-licensing to the highest bidder, universities should support researchers to turn entrepreneur and nurture their own start-ups, says Walter Valdivia

Compromise reached on lowering car CO2 emissions

Resistance at a national level forces MEPs to agree to a delay on limiting emissions and to a controversial scheme that will enable manufacturers to continue to produce polluting cars if they also make low emission vehicles