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Three-fold revamp aims to smooth out the wrinkles in disparate national rules and support the unitary patent system coming into force in June

Long-awaited Commission proposals to reform EU’s pharmaceutical legislation seek to improve access to medicines and promote innovation, but companies say they will drive investment out of Europe

Member states have almost settled on a call to make immediate open access the default, with no author fees. But some say the Council needs to do more to prevent AI-generated papers threatening the integrity of the scientific record

A compromise is reached after member states vetoed the transfer of €400M from the EU research programme. €325M for the €3.3B initiative to reboot semiconductor manufacturing in the EU will come from Digital Europe

Respondents name climate change, energy supply and biodiversity as top priorities for the second half of the EU research programme

Research stakeholders are concerned applying this principle across the board will create an administrative burden and could impede climate change research. Parliament’s budget committee wants a more proportionate approach

Member states to decide which new industry and public partnerships will be added to the EU research and innovation portfolio by end of the year

Almost half of venture capital investments fail or do not secure the expected returns, according to new report

It’s not starting until 2028, but stakeholders are ready to negotiate for more long-term vision, better balance and a bigger budget in the EU’s tenth research framework programme

As Brussels starts making sense of the Commission’s proposal for creating a homegrown net zero market, industry points to lack of understanding of how innovation works