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The business community and others favouring a strong economy have for years complained that too many burdensome federal regulations are damaging the economy.

The Science|Business Academic Enterprise Award winner in the Materials and Chemistry category - presented at ETH Zurich in February - has made a breakthrough in waste management, developing a sustainable recycling process for food and drink packaging made from plastic/aluminium laminates

A group of MEPs working on plans for the EU’s overall budget from 2014 are pushing for a big boost – to as much as €100 billion - for the next EU research programme, as Maria Da Graça Carvalho, Member of the European Parliament tells Science|Business

Great Britain wants the next Framework Research Programme to work alongside the structural and cohesion funds

A more flexible grant system will generate more innovation and create more value than the current Framework Programme 7’s €6.1B health research budget

The funders of the telescope have established a founding board and selected Jodrell Bank Observatory, Manchester, UK to host the project office

Joerg Sperling, Partner at the European cleantech investment fund WHEB Partners and president of the Tech Tour Cleantech Summit 2011, gives his perspective on prospects for the sector for 2011