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EU publishes 109 comments on its plan to form a European Innovation Council – and most support the idea so long as it doesn’t eat up existing EU research funds and awards grants faster

Nine universities team up to talk up research in Europe and boost the profile of several countries’ capabilities

After four years of falling revenues, the old-stager of the computer industry is remaking itself around the artificial intelligence machine Watson. A new lab in Munich will spearhead the strategy of using AI to make sense of data from billions of internet-connected devices

With resources and services stretched to their limits, future cities must be smarter. Cambridge professors Doug Crawford-Brown, Robert Mair and Koen Steemers describe the innovations in technology and governance needed to keep the megacity functional

Commission to form new group, bringing all interested parties round one table in attempt to speed up technical standard setting. The announcement follows pledge to create new standards for 5G, cloud computing and the internet of things

Karolinska Institutet to support students from India's Regional Centre for Biotechnology

A group of world leading, universities met in Brussels to found the Guild of European Research Intensive Universities.

When Chalmers two competence centres Chase and GigaHertz Centre summarize ten years of operation and stake out the direction for the future, both companies and Vinnova want to be on-board.

Science ministers tell publishers to ditch subscriptions and change their business models, but agree there should be caveats on open access to protect intellectual property rights, security and privacy

Preliminary proposal would base the new council on Horizon 2020’s SME Instrument

Taking money from Horizon 2020 has contributed to falling success rates in grant applications. The €2.2B funnelled to the Strategic Investment Fund should be restored to the programme in the budget review, say MEPs on the research committee

Six ESADE researchers have been recognised by Emerald Publishing, the owner of more than 300 scientific journals, for the quality and impact of their publications.

Students from Delft University think they can send passengers from Amsterdam to Paris in 30 minutes through high-speed tubes

The EU still has not learned basic lessons about innovation from its US competition. Professors Gunnar Landgren and Ramon Wyss, both instrumental in the formation of EIT Knowledge and Innovation Communities, explain how to remedy the European innovation paradox

Harvard economist Michael Porter argues that, to improve performance, healthcare systems need to measure not what goes in, but what comes out. A movement to focus more on such ‘patient outcomes’ is gathering speed in Europe

The world needs a global plan to tackle antimicrobial resistance. Alongside a $2B fund to jump-start innovation there should be a $1B reward for companies when a new antibiotic is launched, says Jim O’Neill, chair of the review

The new body will absorb seven research councils, covering all scientific disciplines, and the innovation agency Innovate UK, with the aim of creating integrated funding system

GE Healthcare Life Sciences continues to invest in Uppsala. The company signs a two-year collaboration agreement with Uppsala BIO