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BP’s new International Centre for Advanced Materials with its hub at Manchester University now has ten research projects underway across four universities — including one focused on smart “self-healing” coatings

The European Commission has launched a new strategy to enhance the competitiveness of European manufacturing by securing better access to raw materials

Third generation cognitive computing is making sense of data mountains and starting to deliver remarkable improvements in healthcare. Now, sensitively calibrated data protection rules are needed – to reassure patients and protect privacy, whilst allowing progress to continue

Figures for the 2014 - 2020 research budget are starting to emerge despite a lack of clarity from the European Council. But MEPs are determined to reject the budget, and R&D could become part of a test of strength between the EU institutions

There's less for Horizon 2020 than the €80B the Commission proposed, though R&D will get more money than in FP7. With smoke and mirrors obscuring the true figures, MEPs say the real negotiations start now

Winners of European Research Council Proof-of-Concept grants showcased scientific breakthroughs and pitched their market potential to investors at a Science|Business Innovation Board event this week

As the Council meets to continue negotiating the budget for 2014 – 2020, senior industrialists, R&D administrators, university vice chancellors, Nobel prize winners and grass roots scientists insist the proposed €80B Horizon 2020 budget must be approved

It’s a virtuous circle: New approval processes put in place by the European Medicines Agency are de-risking drug development, promoting investment in early-stage biotech and meeting unmet medical needs, says Paul Morton

Lower nitrogen losses with perennial biofuel crops

As the number one priority for ICT research, the 10-year FET Flagship projects in graphene and computer modelling of the brain announced this week are guaranteed €1B each - regardless of any cuts in the proposed €80B Horizon 2020 programme

The reform of data protection will lead to a surge of innovation in products and services and make the public sector more efficient, the Commission promises. But this won’t happen if ICT skills continue to be neglected

New IEA publication details how Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden could decarbonise their power sectors and electrify transport

Taking EU Presidency, Irish politicians hope for a deal by summer – but many predict the budget wrangling will continue all year

Willow trees cultivated for green energy can yield up to five times more biofuel if they grow diagonally, compared with those that are allowed to grow naturally up towards the sky.