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EU receives 54 cross-border proposals to create new shared campuses

Plan to help Hungarian companies innovate will encourage universities and research institutes to strengthen ties with industry and to raise income by providing innovation services

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

In his 20 years as head of Germany’s biggest AI research lab Wolfgang Wahlster has seen the tech hype machine splutter three times. As he hands over to a new CEO, he warns colleagues: ‘Don’t over-promise’

His mandate now expired, Robert-Jan Smits reflects on how his radical open access plan has delighted and infuriated in equal measure. ‘This was the icebreaker that science needed,’ he says

Improvements in life expectancy are slowing down across Europe. An OECD-commissioned report attempts to unpick the reasons and calls for countries to step-up research and monitoring of mortality

Brexit has disrupted life at the biggest fusion facility in the world. But as it enters the final stage of its operation, JET is ‘out to smash records’, Ian Chapman, CEO of nuclear fusion programme tells Science|Business

Latest: BioMed Alliance: Plan S is “too restrictive and inflexible”

European Court of Auditors says it will investigate whether EU attempts to tackle antibiotic resistance provide value for money, on same day that health and food agencies say the problem is getting worse

Artificial intelligence is powering ahead. But although there is plenty of discussion on the ethics of how it is applied – and much disquiet about issues such as automated decision-making and systemic bias - there is little serious research into the topic

Salary thresholds proposed for the UK’s post-Brexit visa system would lock out skilled laboratory technicians. ‘Without them the science we do here would be impossible,’ says Paul Nurse, director of the Crick Institute in London

National governments give the green light for successor to the Juncker Plan, and want to set up an independent committee to help oversee the €38 billion loan guarantee fund