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This year’s EU innovation scoreboard shows big differences between member states remain

Small companies with limited resources have much to gain from open innovation. But, says Wim Vanhaverbeke, a lack of suitable tools leaves SMEs struggling to organise and manage collaborations. They need support from local networks

Horizon 2020’s system of rigid calls and heavy auditing discourages high-risk, high-impact projects, says Ángeles Rodriguez-Peña, as she bows out as head of COST

The need to adopt a more value-based approach to healthcare is pressing, but some question if it is right to map the patient-centric model proposed by Harvard economist Michael Porter onto Europe’s universal health systems

With the number of cancer cases on the rise, stretched healthcare systems have to support more and more patients with troublesome symptoms and the side effects of treatment. Finnish start-up Noona has developed a mobile app to support self-management

Greater certainty about what types of digital health technology will be regulated by FDA will foster innovation and help the agency to devote more resources to higher risk priorities, says Scott Gottlieb

Despite Brussels’ new emphasis on smart specialisation, there is an ongoing difficulty in capturing the value of EU cohesion policy

The Prima initiative will tackle two of the root causes of migration - water and food scarcity around the Mediterranean basin

Combining the technical expertise of an engineer with the clinical expertise of a medical doctor can lead to the invention of the century

New research from the Centre for Resuscitation Science at Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm South General (Söder) Hospital in Sweden shows that a specially constructed drone equipped with a defibrillator can be dispatched by alarm and delivered automatically to the site of a cardiac arrest long before an ambulance arrives. The results are published in the respected medical periodical JAMA.

In the tenth edition of the Index, China becomes the first-ever middle income economy to be ranked in the top 25

The EU set out the groundwork for a hugely ambitious plan to interconnect Europe’s science outputs. Now the squabbling over how to fund and who to run the cloud begins

Europe’s researchers should take a principled stand against the new military R&D programme. The EU was created to preserve peace; it will not be peaceful anymore, says Dave Webb, of the UK Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament

Scientists at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden report that cancer cells and normal cells use different ‘gene switches’ in order to regulate the expression of genes that control growth.

The University of Luxembourg intends to appoint a new President. This person will be committed to its mission, an accomplished strategic thinker and communicator, and an infectious optimist about the future of the University.

At the 2017 Small Cell World Summit in London, Huawei won the 10 year anniversary award issued by the Small Cell Forum in recognition of Huawei's efforts to accelerate Small Cell deployment worldwide, and the company’s outstanding contribution to the Small Cell industry.

Aalto University’s test network gives companies the opportunity to develop new solutions.

The Conservative party is defending a 9,582 majority in Oxford West and Abingdon, a constituency where 62% backed Remain in the referendum. Polls indicate Brexit and its consequences for science are a concern for voters in the city