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Talks with Japan, South Korea, Canada and New Zealand have all made progress, EU lead negotiator Signe Ratso tells Science|Business. But association is likely only to be partial, and the UK and Switzerland remain shut out of the research programme

Draft copy of the agreement seen by Science|Business sets out plan to cut down on the use of a narrow set of journal and publication metrics

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

Science|Business checks out the research-focused takeaways from the latest Eurostat report on progress towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals

To turn things around, the Commission is considering more money for the European Defence Fund, a hub for defence innovation, new financing instruments for defence SMEs and a bigger role for the European Investment Bank

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

US AI guidelines are everything the EU’s AI Act is not: voluntary, non-prescriptive and focused on changing the culture of tech companies. They could have an impact long before the EU legislation – but only if AI developers sign up

The European Commission wants research institutions to reduce their reliance on journal metrics and reward researchers according to the quality of their work, not by the number of citations

Commission’s support is on the right track - but the measures lack coherence and visibility, says European Court of Auditors

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