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A row has broken out over intellectual property rights and the funding model of Europe’s €2B flagship research programme, the Innovative Medicines Joint Technology Initiative.

Europe’s chemical companies are pioneering enzymes to turn plant waste into fuel. But the technology is being exploited elsewhere.

Times may be hard, but it remains possible to be innovative, Henry Chesbrough, the father of Open Innovation and ESADE Visiting Professor, tells Science|Business.

Genomics is turbo-charging traditional plant and animal breeding. But can new varieties get patent protection, ask Nicholas Jones and Rachel Wallis of Withers & Rogers LLP.

Today in Munich, GE calls on European researchers and innovators: Pitch in your ideas to a €160 million open innovation challenge, and help build the electricity grids of the future.

GE’s $200M call for entrepreneurs to bring their smart grid technologies is also a challenge to the whole system of research, development and innovation in Europe.