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The upcoming European Innovation Agenda aims to make Europe a deep tech start-up leader. The Commission hopes to adopt it in July

US AI guidelines are everything the EU’s AI Act is not: voluntary, non-prescriptive and focused on changing the culture of tech companies. They could have an impact long before the EU legislation – but only if AI developers sign up

The European Commission wants research institutions to reduce their reliance on journal metrics and reward researchers according to the quality of their work, not by the number of citations

Commission’s support is on the right track - but the measures lack coherence and visibility, says European Court of Auditors

NSF Engines, a new programme of the US National Science Foundation, aims to spread the tech wealth more broadly across the nation – tackling a regional policy problem common to many countries

A year in, the preliminary plans for the €55.3B research partnerships appear to be on track to help advance EU’s green, digital and health goals

Expanding the scope of the programme to include technologies ‘that may not be innovative’ is not the way to reduce EU greenhouse gas emissions

In hour-long videoconference, US universities vow to help counterparts in Ukraine with reconstruction and in enabling them to play a wider role in repairing the war-torn economy

Opening Europe up to gene edited crops would be good for start-ups, but clumsy deregulation could cost Europe dear

As Japan enters early-stage talks on Horizon Europe association, head of Kyoto-based Science and Technology in Society forum urges joint research to speed up the green energy transition

Joint research calls, supply chain monopolies and standards setting. All these topics and more were on the agenda at a meeting in Washington DC. China was shut out, opening a geopolitical fault line in a critical technology of the future

The Research Excellence Framework involved 900 academics scrutinising more than 185,000 pieces of research. 41% of UK research is world leading, while 43% is internationally excellent, the review finds

Grant agreements with companies that have been waiting for Accelerator financing since October will be concluded early next month. But equity funding will not follow until ‘after June’

In a speech at the closing ceremony of the Conference on the Future of Europe, the French president praised the EU’s scientific prowess, and called for treaty changes