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Dutch MEP Judith Merkies tells Science|Business that ambitious legislation is necessary to brings innovation policy closer to Europe’s citizens.

Efficiency in deploying knowledge is more important to economic competitiveness than the ability to create new knowledge, argues Sami Mahroum.

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.