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A Trump salvo against the EU’s Horizon research programme opens a new area of Transatlantic conflict. Time for Europe to step up

Technologies are advancing at an exponential rate. So why aren’t our economies? The father of open innovation gives his view

Research leaders battling EU budget cuts should take a leaf from the farmers’ playbook: Get better organized, and get noisier

Dropping research from the title of incoming R&D commissioner Mariya Gabriel is a worrying sign Brussels is pursuing commercialisation at the expense of basic science, says Svein Stølen, rector of Oslo University

Europe risks missing the next big act in online entertainment: real-time multilingual movie and video streaming, warns KTH professor

Former science minister David Willetts says public research institutes urgently need more processing power

Science diplomacy can work when other kinds of politics and diplomacy have failed, says Carlos Moedas, outgoing commissioner for research and innovation

Anita Krohn Traaseth, member of the European Innovation Council’s advisory board, says Europe can take the lead in the coming wave of technology-driven growth

Viewpoint: The announcement of the new Commission should prompt some deeper thinking in EU capitals about the way they manage science and technology

Viewpoint: Compliance with the rules should be an obvious requirement for spin-out companies – so why has it tripped up many a budding entrepreneur? One expert in providing advice to start-ups gives his view