Innovation

After months of waiting for the Commission to fix internal management issues and start distributing equity funding to start-ups, Parliament’s research and industry committee is moving to force the issue

First year will be dedicated to setting up the network, but the Fraunhofer-led consortium has plans to train thousands of entrepreneurs and support businesses in their green transition

Ahead of next week’s launch, Commissioner says her plan to turn into EU into a deep tech innovation leader depends on a ‘coalition of the willing’ to implement it

In an interview in Washington, German research minister Bettina Stark-Watzinger outlines plans for upcoming G7 meeting – and promises ‘tangible’ results

Partnerships for Regional Innovation has a broad brief – to prop up the European Innovation Agenda, deliver on Green Deal goals and close the regional innovation gap

The upcoming European Innovation Agenda aims to make Europe a deep tech start-up leader. The Commission hopes to adopt it in July

NSF Engines, a new programme of the US National Science Foundation, aims to spread the tech wealth more broadly across the nation – tackling a regional policy problem common to many countries

The first 63 regions, seven cities and four countries are selected for the Partnerships for Regional Innovation pilot, as part of the upcoming European Innovation Agenda

Expanding the scope of the programme to include technologies ‘that may not be innovative’ is not the way to reduce EU greenhouse gas emissions

COST and the European Institute of Innovation and Technology want their grantees in less innovative regions to benefit from a wider range of support