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Excellence comes in many forms and attempts to rank universities should reflect this. But it should also be understood that excellence does not equate to success, says Onora O’Neill

MEPs say the European Commission’s proposed flat rate funding scheme is an over-simplification that will favour industry over academics

Strasbourg should become the EU’s innovation capital, say MEPs. The proposal is an attempt to break the deadlock with France about the seat of the European Parliament

MEPs say work is still needed to strike the balance between flexibility, coherence and reliability

The 2012 Global Innovation Index published this week, presents a broad set of measures to help public and private sector leaders push the innovation agenda forward, says Soumitra Dutta, one of the authors of the report

The pharmaceutical industry – Europe’s most R&D intensive sector – is being damaged by cuts to drugs budgets. This will drive investment in innovation elsewhere, the EU is warned in a letter from Andrew Witty, president of EFPIA

Forty years’ horse trading has ended in a eurofudge, as EU heads of state have agreed on a compromise proposal to split the court that will litigate the EU Unitary Patent between Paris, Munich and London

New laws on both sides of the Atlantic are changing the way patents will work. A Science|Business conference in Washington May 7 examined how this historic convergence could help inventors - and the economy

Successful partnerships also require strong support by rectors and top managers, as well as teams on both sides capable of crossing boundaries, according to a study published by the Science|Business Innovation Board