Plenković signals support for high-level proposal to make research, innovation and education ‘a fifth freedom,’ in a speech to the EU annual budget conference
New plans to allocate at least 7% of a growing defence budget to R&D and military-related science would see spending rise significantly – but at the expense of civilian research
Votes on boosting green technology production, sharing health data for research, and access to EU supercomputers for AI start-ups are among the last acts of this mandate
At a get-together in Paris, OECD ministers said a new ‘anticipatory’ approach is needed. Consumer neurotechnology, increasingly able to read minds, is seen as one of the biggest novel risks
Details of ship propulsion systems and the illegal export of lasers: three spies allegedly passed on information about cutting-edge technology to China in exchange for money
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