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MEPs say the European Commission’s proposed flat rate funding scheme is an over-simplification that will favour industry over academics

Strasbourg should become the EU’s innovation capital, say MEPs. The proposal is an attempt to break the deadlock with France about the seat of the European Parliament

MEPs say work is still needed to strike the balance between flexibility, coherence and reliability

MEPs call for better organisation in this aspect of Horizon 2020 to ensure it meets its goals

The EIT needs to do more to be seen as a global brand of excellence, say MEPs

More needs to be done to promote synergies between Europe’s various funding programmes, say MEPs

A new programme for SMEs aims to increase participation and success rates

With the final budget still unknown, the European Parliament makes provisions for getting the most of what may come

It should help boost innovation: “Devil is in the details,” experts say

The 2012 Global Innovation Index published this week, presents a broad set of measures to help public and private sector leaders push the innovation agenda forward, says Soumitra Dutta, one of the authors of the report

MEPs threaten to take Council to EU Court of Justice after member states limit involvement of EU legal system in patent litigation without consulting Parliament

The EU must take action to translate expertise in key underpinning technologies such as biotechnology, photonics and nanotechnology into industry-powered growth, says EU Commissioner Antonio Tajani

The pharmaceutical industry – Europe’s most R&D intensive sector – is being damaged by cuts to drugs budgets. This will drive investment in innovation elsewhere, the EU is warned in a letter from Andrew Witty, president of EFPIA

Forty years’ horse trading has ended in a eurofudge, as EU heads of state have agreed on a compromise proposal to split the court that will litigate the EU Unitary Patent between Paris, Munich and London

Original research looking at the barriers to deployment of personalised healthcare conducted in a collaboration managed by Science|Business have now been published in a peer-review journal