R&D News

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

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

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

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

Now is not the time to cut funds for large-scale experimentation. The current economic dilemma of the EU is a golden opportunity to enable innovation breakthroughs at a system level, says Ioan Ciumasu

It’s up to MEPs to ally with the Commission and stop the European Council cutting the proposed €80B research programme, Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, R&D Commissioner, tells the European Parliament as negotiations reach a head

Academics, SMEs and large companies are doing much more research in partnership. Science|Business looks back at some of the highlights of the move to open innovation in 2012, and the policy initiatives that are supporting this

2013 promises more delay and infighting over the role of Brussels in European research and innovation. Our pledge: To keep up the pressure for a speedy resolution to disputes over future R&D funding

The proposed €80B Horizon 2020 programme should give greater weight to mission-driven, problem-solving research, and to post-research development concludes a new study published by EARTO, the European Association of Research and Technology Organisations

Experts say public procurement of innovation will help spur more start-ups. But a ‘bottom-up’ approach to designing EU programmes is also vital.