This issue focus on energy, on some applications where nickel is making a difference in how energy is being produced or how the consequences of energy production are being reduced.
With most applications failing to pass the initial quality criteria, the Future and Emerging Technologies FET Open scheme has an overall success rate of only four per cent
Companies looking for funding in the first two calls for public-private partnerships under the Key Enabling Technologies programme represent more than 50 per cent of total applications. Of these, 30 per cent come from SMEs
Following its launch in 2014, the instrument quickly became very popular among European SMEs, and the Commission has been flooded with applications. Sadly, success rates are low, ranging from 6 to 10 per cent
Mounds of paperwork and regulation are blocking the route to capital markets for small companies. It’s time for reforms to change this, says Rainer Riess, head of the Federation for European Securities
uniqure NV, the Dutch company which won the first approval for a gene therapy, is taking its technology into the mainstream in a collaboration with Bristol-Myers Squibb to develop treatments for heart diseases
New research suggests that ordinary clay could make a relatively cheap contribution to the decarbonisation struggle. But feasibility remains a long way off
Speaking at the Science|Business Horizon 2020 conference, Tibor Navracsics defends controversial plans to tap the EU innovation budget, and spoke on the importance of Marie Curie grants for researchers
A new study by Climate-KIC shows how towns and cities can chart a path for a successful transition to a low carbon economy. The report, ‘Maximising Europe’s Low Carbon Activities: Moving from Individual Projects to Challenge-led Programmes’ assesses programmes where public authorities have recognised the limitations of a traditional project approach, and moved towards more comprehensive programmes.
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