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As evidence that UK researchers are being cut out of research consortia as a result of the Brexit vote mounts, a dedicated unit has been set up to collect specific examples of discrimination

The number of people actively involved in starting a business in Sweden is growing faster than in Germany and France, which along with Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain have the lowest levels of entrepreneurial activity in Europe, says a new report

There is no dossier, but anecdotal evidence that British researchers are being sidelined in putting together proposals for Horizon 2020 grants is growing

Uncertainty reigns in British science, not least because the UK gets more out in R&D funding than it contributes. Nicola Blackwood MP, chair of parliament’s Science and Technology Committee, has written to Chancellor George Osborne demanding answers

The top six universities in the UK are involved in Horizon 2020 projects worth almost €500M. Vice chancellors are anxiously seeking reassurances on current research and the question of access to future EU R&D programmes

In the wake of the UK vote to leave the EU, leaders offer reassurances to researchers anxious about the effects on science

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With the polls suggesting the outcome of the critical in-out referendum is too close to call, scientists in the EU tell Science|Business they fear a British exit will have negative consequences for European research as a whole

After raiding Horizon 2020 funds, the European Fund for Strategic Investments is attracting private investment and on course to reach its €315B target. But the low risk projects it is financing are not wholly innovative - only one involves a research organisation

The European Innovation Council should not obsess over Europe’s lack of billion-dollar companies. Instead, it should stick to getting small details right, says entrepreneur Piotr Jakubowiczi