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One game-changer can deliver the promise of personalised healthcare. It is information technology, says Alan Davies of GE Healthcare.

An appreciation of Andrew Dearing, Secretary General of the European Industrial Research Management Association for 10 years.

Thoughts have turned to shaping Framework Programme 8. Here, Stijn Delauré and Laura Keustermans of the League of European Research Universities make their recommendations.

As European SME week gets underway, Tom Saylor, Chair of EuropaBio’s SME Platform argues Europe’s ‘Innovation Engine’ needs sustained fuel injection.

The technology is coming on apace, but Europe’s health services are not set up to get personalised healthcare to the patients.

The proliferation of innovation jargon is making it hard to formulate effective innovation policy, writes Sami Mahroum.

Human genes are patentable, says the English Court of Appeal, but only if the patent describes a practical way that the gene or protein can be exploited.

Europe needs to coordinate its social security systems to increase the mobility of researchers, write Danny Pieters, Paul Schoukens and Katrien Maes.

Personalising medicine will improve healthcare and create important new markets. Europe needs to move now and seize the benefits it offers, writes Richard L. Hudson.

As the Commission prepares to set out translations rules for the European patent on May 18, here are some helpful suggestions from Bruno Van Pottelsberghe of the Bruegel think tank.