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The first new medicine for tuberculosis in over 40 years has received the 2014 UK Prix Galien – regarded as one of the highest accolades for pharmaceutical research and development – at a ceremony held at the House of Commons.

Prof. Richard Parker of Rolls-Royce plc and Dr. Gert-Jan Gruter of Avantium were awarded as CTO of the Year Europe 2014 representing large companies and SMEs, respectively. The award ceremony took place on October 9th in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, by EIRMA and Spinverse.

As he warms up for his swan song, outgoing Commission President José Manuel Barroso is beginning to think about his legacy. The creation of the European Research Council and the European Institute of Innovation and Technology count among his greatest hits, he tells Science|Business

To realise the potential - and prevent the misuse - of digitised healthcare information, statistics and programming need to feature in medical training. And better security must be put in place to ensure patient privacy

Venture capital investment in EU start-ups is less than one-quarter of US level. Policy shift could help spur more innovation by allowing pension and insurance funds to channel a small fraction of their assets to venture funds

Europe’s SMEs are starved of cash. Crowdfunding represents a potential way to overcome some of the fragmentation of Europe’s capital markets and improve access to financing for start-ups, says Karen Wilson of the policy thinktank Bruegel

Three of the Midlands’ leading universities have been awarded £13 Million for a “Doctoral Training Partnership” to provide research training to support the Midlands bioeconomy.

Imperial and a major European ICT innovation community helped connect start-up companies and investors at the Investors Dinner Europe.

Tibor Navracsics was left with little time to discuss the education portfolio as MEPs questioned him on Hungary’s poor track-record in defending freedom of speech and the rule of law.

Romanian Commissioner-designate was criticised for lacking ideas on funding priorities for one of the EU’s largest budgets

Jan Reichelt, co-founder of Mendeley, reflects on how his start-up brought relief to academics and shook up science publishing. The secret was in making a common cause with fellow researchers, he says

Vytenis Andriukaitis pledges to widen access to innovative healthcare across the EU and to keep the highest health and food safety standards in a more equal ‘Health Union’

Carlos Moedas, Portugal’s nominee for EU Commissioner for research, wins over MEPs. Now it’s time for implementation, implementation, implementation, he says

“Techkriti” and “Techfest” in India are two of Asia’s largest technology trade fairs. Each year, ETH Zurich sends a student delegation to these events, with the team from “e-Velolink” taking part in this year’s Techkriti fair in Kanpur.

In all, 155 SMEs will receive funding. Along with Spain, the UK and Italy fare well

Young entrepreneurs came face-face-to-face with policymakers in Brussels to talk about taking risks and accepting failure more readily

New innovations like Uber should not be shunned says Eric Schmidt, chairman of Google in his ‘Essay for the European Commission’