Richard L. Hudson

Governments around the world are now pushing for ‘disruptive innovations’. Quebec’s AUDACE programme is funding scientists to work with farmers, dancers and others for surprising results

Officials in Ottawa say they plan to step up funding for Canadian researchers to join other countries’ R&D programmes – including Horizon Europe

Uncertainty is rising over Switzerland’s future relations with the EU in science – and that’s worrying the country’s top universities

EU Council meeting expected to see joint declaration by eastern agriculture and research ministers - a rare effort at coordinated east European lobbying over research in Brussels

‘It’s about the respect’: Science|Business reconstructs how disputes over the demand for equal pay for researchers from poorer EU13 countries played out in negotiations over the planned €94.1 billion R&D programme

Commissioners sign off on experimental ‘matrix‘ design for DG Research that also retains international division, ending months of speculation

Joint European Disruptive Initiative announces €3B fund – but then calls it an April Fool’s prank to draw attention to the fake news problem

Varjo is one of 1,270 companies funded by the European Innovation Council since the pilot scheme launched in 2017

The Commission’s new ‘Task Force EIC’ would include staffers from both its research and SME agencies, as part of a major restructuring of the EU’s research organisation

The OECD says big-company spending on R&D is more important than ever. EU policy makers must resolve how to work with industry in their next R&D programme.