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It is naïve to put EU research data on the open science cloud without having a plan to protect intellectual property. ‘That makes me nervous,’ says Joseph Straus, former director of the Max Planck Institute for IP

Working with countries in Africa, the EU has fostered innovation that is making an important contribution to the fight against AIDS. To build on this, the new Africa-EU partnership now taking shape needs more ambitious goals

Dropping research from the title of incoming R&D commissioner Mariya Gabriel is a worrying sign Brussels is pursuing commercialisation at the expense of basic science, says Svein Stølen, rector of Oslo University

Europe risks missing the next big act in online entertainment: real-time multilingual movie and video streaming, warns KTH professor

Former science minister David Willetts says public research institutes urgently need more processing power

Science diplomacy can work when other kinds of politics and diplomacy have failed, says Carlos Moedas, outgoing commissioner for research and innovation

Europe needs a nuanced and flexible approach to extract the full potential AI holds for extending coverage, improving diagnoses and increasing staff productivity in healthcare

Chair of UK parliament’s science committee, Norman Lamb, predicts UK will support entry to the next EU research programme, ‘almost at any cost, almost whatever the terms’

Anita Krohn Traaseth, member of the European Innovation Council’s advisory board, says Europe can take the lead in the coming wave of technology-driven growth

The new European Commission must make research and education a priority as it sets out the roadmap for the next five years