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Universities are worried that the call from former WTO chief Pascal Lamy for them to nurture more start-up founders and digitise faster puts their broader contributions to society, culture and the economy at risk of being sidelined

No one underestimates the difficulty of shoehorning science into policy. Partiality is inevitable, but policy makers need to be transparent in showing what underlies their decisions - and what evidence they choose to ignore

CIMED, the Center for Innovative Medicine, is changing its focus and have a new board starting from 1 July

The institute will support the positive structural change in Southwest Finland by means of university education and innovation activities.

Don’t mention the B word: the first major reform of R&D funding since 1965 aims to make the UK the “go-to place” for science. But in setting out the vision, no reference was made to Brexit and its implications

New details of long-awaited Council emerge in draft work programme

EU research commissioner hopes study by former WTO head can help persuade Commission colleagues, member-states to boost research spending

Former WTO chief Pascal Lamy sets out a wide range of ideas to reform EU research and innovation programmes, starting a yearlong campaign to secure the future research budget

EU leadership role an opportunity for Tallinn to boost its status as the bloc’s most technology-enabled member

Former chair of the US House of Representatives science committee Bart Gordon shares lessons he learned from setting up the innovation funding body ARPA-E, to promote advanced energy projects

 

EU research chief Robert-Jan Smits talks about the priorities for 2018 – 2020, getting the European Innovation Council off the ground and the changes coming in Framework Programme 9

Comments by Jyrki Katainen at Science|Business conference highlight coming budget battle among researchers, farmers and other EU constituents

The first edition of CERN’s Journal of Experimental Innovation, an open access publication looking at how to direct innovation, is published on Friday. Editor-in-chief Saku Mäkinen outlines its scope

13 new members added in past year to network uniting industry, research and policy

New economic review by Science|Business finds strong evidence of R&D impact – but huge variation in estimates, and uncertainty over which programmes work best