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There's less for Horizon 2020 than the €80B the Commission proposed, though R&D will get more money than in FP7. With smoke and mirrors obscuring the true figures, MEPs say the real negotiations start now

Winners of European Research Council Proof-of-Concept grants showcased scientific breakthroughs and pitched their market potential to investors at a Science|Business Innovation Board event this week

As the Council meets to continue negotiating the budget for 2014 – 2020, senior industrialists, R&D administrators, university vice chancellors, Nobel prize winners and grass roots scientists insist the proposed €80B Horizon 2020 budget must be approved

It’s a virtuous circle: New approval processes put in place by the European Medicines Agency are de-risking drug development, promoting investment in early-stage biotech and meeting unmet medical needs, says Paul Morton

The reform of data protection will lead to a surge of innovation in products and services and make the public sector more efficient, the Commission promises. But this won’t happen if ICT skills continue to be neglected

Taking EU Presidency, Irish politicians hope for a deal by summer – but many predict the budget wrangling will continue all year

Six of the world’s most prestigious public drug discovery organisations are joining forces in a bid to improve the conversion rate of basic research into much-needed new therapies

Universities have a pivotal role to play in responding to the Grand Challenges, fostering innovation and creating growth and social wellbeing. How should these institutions respond to this task? asks Lauritz B. Holm-Nielsen, President of Euroscience and Rector of Aarhus University, Denmark

Now is not the time to cut funds for large-scale experimentation. The current economic dilemma of the EU is a golden opportunity to enable innovation breakthroughs at a system level, says Ioan Ciumasu

It’s up to MEPs to ally with the Commission and stop the European Council cutting the proposed €80B research programme, Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, R&D Commissioner, tells the European Parliament as negotiations reach a head