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The promise of accelerated approvals and higher pricing has persuaded pharmaceutical companies to break the deadlock in antibiotic R&D

Entrepreneurship is the route to growth and job creation. But don’t try and kid Europe’s unemployed youth they can all be entrepreneurs.

WIPO report highlights how intellectual property is moving from being a purely technical issue to become a central part of innovation policy

ARTEMIS has shown it is possible to take a broadly-applicable technology and develop it to meet the needs of different industries and different countries. There are lessons here for other cross-industry initiatives

Spurred by the seminal report of Esko Aho, in 2007 the EU set about trying to use its massive public sector spending power to create a coordinated demand for new products. A report on the Lead Market Initiative considers the progress of the policy to date

There’s plenty of (empirical) evidence to justify specific measures to put women scientists on an equal footing with their male counterparts. A Gender Summit next week must make an unambiguous call for Horizon 2020 to embrace this view

Education is to get a massive 73% increase in funding if the proposed budget for 2014 – 2020 is approved. Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou explains how the money will be spent and what - she hopes - the impact will be

At its 2nd annual conference next week, the Desertec project for the large-scale production of electricity from sunlight in the deserts of north Africa – and its export to Europe – will discuss progress to date