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New and expanded research and innovation programmes are scattered throughout the EU’s new budget. Here’s a rundown.

Lobbyists mount last, urgent blitz ahead of Wednesday’s budget announcement

Advisor lays out plan for how Europe can keep pace with rivals in key enabling technologies

Leaders of giant radio telescope project look forward to a year of milestones, including signing a treaty to give SKA intergovernmental status, smoothing its funding outlook

As the aspiring ethical leader in data handling, Europe may find it hard to keep pace in the data-fuelled AI race

With military R&D on the rise everywhere, US Office of Naval Research plans more basic research grants and scouting offices around the world

Proposal follows public concern over reapproval of controversial weedkiller glyphosate

Time for an urgent rethink on new copyright rules, say 23 research groups

Campaign against a multi-billion euro plan enlists over 400 researchers around Europe and further afield. Rather than weapons, the EU should fund research to tackle the root causes of conflict, they say  

New investment vehicle seeded with €410M of public money aims to attract pension funds and sovereign wealth funds to back early-stage companies and help them reach €1B ‘unicorn’ status in Europe

An alliance between four of Europe’s leading universities - Sorbonne, Heidelberg, Charles and Warsaw - is the first of several expected cross-border deals following French president Emmanuel Macron’s plan for EU academic networks

An independent review has found that European Research Council Proof-of-Concept grants have helped scientists set up companies, file patents and attract venture capital

World International Property Agency says based on 2017 data, China will overtake US in three years. This is part of a shift in the geography of innovation, with almost half of all WIPO filings now coming from east Asia

“Any VC firm will tell you – meeting people is more important than the ideas,” says EU Research Commissioner

Bernard Bigot, director-general of the world's biggest nuclear fusion project, tells Science|Business the perpetually out-of-reach energy source is finally in sight – so long as Trump does not scale back US involvement