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This question was discussed during a Silicon Valley event involving a delegation from Europe’s R&D community

Just over a week after the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank put start-up financing in a peril, the EU research commissioner leads a 50-strong delegation looking to attract US investment in the EU tech sector

Barriers being put up by the US, China and the EU could hinder scientific progress at a time when it is most urgently needed, according to OECD’s latest report on the global R&D outlook

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s visit to the US results in agreement to a ‘transparency dialogue’ over incentives given to the clean tech industry, in a move to prevent huge US subsidies luring companies from Europe

It’s unclear to what extent tech companies will sign up to the voluntary guidelines, and exactly how it will fit with the EU’s AI Act. But there are signs the EU and US approaches should be interoperable

The agency wants to give individual reviewers the power to fund proposals they think are promising, even if other panellists disagree. The aim is to avoid only backing the least controversial applications

Blanket subsidies to generate hydrogen in the US are already tempting European producers to set up manufacturing sites across the Atlantic. The issue became a flashpoint in recent negotiations between Washington and Brussels

Kelvin Droegemeier, appointed to the White House this year after a long delay, hails Trump administration’s ‘tremendous progress’ on science