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Chips R&D is very expensive and it doesn’t make sense to duplicate capabilities. To get the full strategic value from their multi-billion incentive schemes, EU-US collaboration ‘is a must’ a joint Science|Business/CSIS conference hears

Recent supply shocks have exposed Europe’s dependence on imports of essential resources. Estonia is aiming to overcome this by developing new techniques for extracting raw materials from overlooked or under-exploited domestic sources

A partnership with the Central European Research Infrastructure Consortium is one of the latest moves to try and improve success rates in getting finance from the EU start-up funder

Concerted efforts to increase success in winning grants from the research programme are bearing fruit. While still low in the EU league table, the two countries now have the networks and support systems in place to make further headway 

SynergistEIC supports start-ups to give them a better chance of success in the EIC Accelerator. But high demand means getting selected for the scheme is almost as competitive as the EIC Accelerator itself

There is some progress, but Manuel Heitor, the Commission’s key adviser on Framework programme 10, says more needs to be done to improve working conditions for Europe’s two million researchers

The first 44 companies have been selected for NATO’s acceleration scheme for start-ups with dual-use technologies. In parallel, the programme is promoting the development of ecosystems around the host accelerators in Tallin, Copenhagen and Turin

As things wind down to the dissolution of the European Parliament and elections next June, Belgium has put translation and commercialisation of research results and international cooperation on the agenda for a presidency focussed on technology sovereignty

As China fears mount, US, UK and Canadian science agencies discuss collaboration on security. Meanwhile, the US National Science Foundation lays the ground for a new security centre, and Republicans push for tighter controls over foreign research funding

Despite last minute lobbying, the legislation will impose extra checks on cutting edge general purpose AI that is owned by a handful of US and Chinese companies. However, there’s no right for researchers to dig into these models