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The government is allotting C$950 million to a new concept for technology translation and commercialisation that borrows ideas from Germany’s Fraunhofer Institutes and the UK’s Catapults

Europe is putting informed opinion ahead of scientific evidence and precaution ahead of risk evaluation. Innovation will be the casualty

European Commission accepts ‘limited impact’ of certificate scheme intended to help researchers who fail to make the cut for Horizon 2020 grants get funding from other sources

EU research programmes must remain open to non-member countries, groups say in joint appeal

It’s early days for full-scale quantum computers, but researchers claim there is an ‘immediate danger’ of Europe falling behind. ‘The heat is on - we have to react,’ says Jürgen Mlynek, chair of the project’s steering committee

OECD study finds huge variation, by country and sector, in the use of digital technologies in business

Embattled university confirms it will relocate the majority of its programmes from Budapest to Austria in ‘a moment of great sadness’

Alliances are sprouting up to take advantage of the funding, but universities wonder how far the money will go

All parties in the negotiations on the UK’s departure from the EU must now strive to ensure that as little harm as possible is done to research, say 29 Nobel prize winners in letter to May and Juncker

EU Commission and European Investment Bank searching for fund manager to drive private investment in a sprawling sector

New ‘G6’ group of top French, German, Italian and Spanish institutes aims for more collaboration, and to ‘make sure politicians understand the urgency’ of science investment

Limiting global warming needs urgent attention in wake of dire IPCC warnings, Gates says