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Country joins the battle to host the EU's London-based drug agency after Brexit

Legal battle in Hawaii is forcing project managers to look at the Canary Islands as new location for Thirty Metre Telescope

The EU-funded Innovative Medicines Initiative is making advances in harnessing health records at scale, unlocking the power of data to tackle hard-to-beat diseases

European Commission has put forward rules on how R&D could be supported through an ambitious new tax system. In an example given by the Commission, a company that spends €30 million on R&D could deduct €42.5 million from its taxable income

EU parliament approves large-scale spending on military research for the first time

European Commission’s new space policy encourages companies to take commercial advantage of the huge earth image datasets generated by the Sentinel satellite fleet

Fall in the pound pushes up price of chemical reagents and lab equipment for UK researchers

Making the case for giving citizens a say on future science paths and some other ideas for the European Commission’s next research programme

The UK vote to leave the EU is symbolic of a more widespread anti-globalisation sentiment that could hamper international collaboration and limit the supply of foreign talent. This could weaken Europe’s university-industry clusters as a whole

To realise the great promise of 5G technologies, Europe needs to step up its game in terms of policy, investment and education