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An alliance with outcomes measurement body ICHOM intends to accelerate the push towards value-based care. The aim is to square the circle between the budget squeeze facing healthcare systems and paying for medical innovation coming through the pipeline

Draft roadmap for the European Open Science Cloud paves the way for a governance structure to be in place by the end of 2018. A ‘soft overlay’ will gradually pull resources across Europe into a seamless whole

European Commission President wants to double current investment in 2020s

A report by the European Parliament’s science and technology options assessment panel calls for the Commission and member states to put more effort into bridging the geographical divide in research and innovation

“Any VC firm will tell you – meeting people is more important than the ideas,” says EU Research Commissioner

Universities in central and eastern Europe are optimistic about competing with their counterparts in the west for Horizon 2020 funding, but say catching up is a long-term process. Grants help, but capital investment in new research infrastructure is badly needed

With its future in Budapest remaining uncertain, the embattled university is making back-up plans

As natural stocks become depleted and overfished, the EU is looking to develop new, sustainable, forms of mariculture. The idea is beginning to attract entrepreneurs

Brussels makes strongest statement yet that it wants the UK in EU research programmes after Brexit, but says there can be no half in, half out arrangement on trade and EU agencies

Open letter calls for European Commission to trust outside investors with picking the best companies to fund

China continues innovation surge, with technology firm Huawei rising to the top. But there has was no progress with Europe’s unitary patent

Setting its objectives for the second stage of negotiations, the UK has confirmed it wants to be part of – and pay into - future Framework programmes and to be a member of EU agencies including EMA