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The European Investment Bank and the European Commission have announced the introduction of the Risk Sharing Finance Facility to provide additional support to R&D and innovation projects in Europe.

The scientists’ organisation Euroscience has welcomed the European Commission’s Green paper on the European Research Area – but raised concerns about aspects of the consultative procedures.

Imperial College London’s former deputy rector, Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, is the new chief executive of the Medical Research Council.

Flagship venture capitalist David Berry takes a hands-on approach to finding and nurturing emerging ideas and companies in life sciences and clean energy.

A €15.3 million fund has been launched to strengthen research cooperation between Norway and Poland in the fields of environment and health.

An international agency should be set up to coordinate moves to combat global warming, says John Browne, former chief executive of oil giant BP.

Nordforsk, the funding agency of the Nordic Council of Ministers, has funded the coordination of a network on biomedical imaging.

Plans to create a European Research Area put too much stress on research and not enough on innovation, says the Eureka secretariat.

The UK Conservative Party has joined the tidal wave of opinion arguing that the European Union needs to use its public procurement budget to drive innovation.

A new database is designed to boost cooperation between researchers across the European Union and eastern Europe.