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The proposed multibillion-euro science cloud could become an expensive drain, like the Galileo satellite navigation project, fears Swedish MEP Christofer Fjellner

Breakthroughs take time - and EIT needs more time and more support to prove it can deliver, says former director of the Climate-KIC's UK arm, Richard Templer

After its damning report, Alex Brenninkmeijer, member of the European Court of Auditors, shares his thoughts on what is wrong with the European Institute of Innovation and Technology, and the prospects for the future

European Institute of Innovation and Technology director Martin Kern says progress being made but more resources needed to finish the job

“I’m offering to come to Brussels and demonstrate on my (or your) laptop the value of text and data mining for open science,” says Peter Murray-Rust of Cambridge University, as he presses the EU to go further on copyright reform

Innovation and research are distinct activities. If Europe is to extract greater value from its science we need an independent European Innovation Council, with a different brief from the European Institute of Innovation and Technology, and separate from the European Research Council

Factoring real world evidence and patients’ opinions into the operation of healthcare systems can reduce inequality within and between countries, whilst increasing sustainability. We need to start by measuring outcomes

The EU Research Commissioner may have correctly identified the reasons for Europe’s failure to commercialise its science, but setting up a new agency that separates innovation from research is not the answer, says Estonian MEP Kaja Kallas

As the volume of information soars, it is no longer enough to search for papers - researchers need computers to read and analyse them too, says Jon Hill, computational biologist at Boehringer Ingelheim

From outright farce while on field work, to rejected grant applications, missing the primary endpoint in a clinical trial and the prototype that did not fly – the mishaps, the unexpected and the unwanted results - should be a source of learning