Israel

New hub in thriving tech town marks continued climb for EU funder

A quarter of applicants to the European Innovation Council Accelerator like the idea of the EU investing in their companies, with strongest interest from Spain and Israel

Daniel Zajfman, head of the Weizmann Institute, one of Israel’s leading research universities, explains his formula for promoting excellence. Fund researchers and give them full independence and control over the direction of their work, he says

BeeHero has invented sensors to track the health of the delicate and threatened insects that are central to agriculture worldwide

“Nobody waits for the government here, we just do things automatically,” says researcher developing national AI strategy

The president of Technion, Israel’s leading high tech university, tells Science|Business how a sense of precariousness feeds the country’s technology edge

The bloc’s closest research partners worry about less privileged access to Horizon Europe, and a sweeter entry deal for the UK