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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

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

Rosie Hicks, head of the Australian Research Data Commons shares her thoughts on open science. Europe and Australia should make sure their data sharing infrastructures can interoperate, she says

Eight years on, the collapse of Nokia’s mobile phone business continues to reverberate. For Pekka Soini, head of the innovation and investment agency Business Finland, this shows the country can’t afford to put all of its eggs in one basket again

As newer EU member states complain about brain drain, innovation expert Anita Tregner Mlinaric says increasing salaries is just one part of the answer to luring them home. National research ecosystems need to improve

We need to increase our ambitions for the Horizon Europe research programme, or risk falling behind the US and Asia, says Markus J. Beyrer, director-general of industry association BusinessEurope

French President Emmanuel Macron has proposed the creation of a European innovation body modelled on Darpa. Researchers at the Jacques Delors Institut in Berlin explore the agency’s potential structure and remit

As WHO warns the antibiotics pipeline does not address the threat of bacterial resistance, the EU must step up and do more to galvanise R&D, accelerate innovation and help shape a coordinated global response to the impending crisis