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Greater integration between research and technology transfer at Cancer Research UK is supporting the formation of more start-ups and fostering the development of an international network of academic partners with complementary skills and capabilities

Global tensions are changing the way science interacts with economic and security policy in Japan, as elsewhere. Before the next G7 summit, to be held in Hiroshima in May, the voice of science must be heard

Current policies to strengthen the EU’s tech competitiveness and autonomy risk back-firing, by closing off vital R&D collaboration with like-minded partners, says GE Aerospace official

EU research commissioner Mariya Gabriel hopes to open negotiations with Japan and South Korea, and foresees Canada will be on board the EU’s €95.5B research programme in the first half of the year

Washington has cut off access to leading artificial intelligence and supercomputing components to stymie Chinese military prowess. But this will have knock on effects on research

As they enter another year of capacity building, EU’s goal-driven research programmes grapple with fragmented regional and national political systems

Virtual reality researchers are attempting to use cascade funding, in which money is awarded to consortia which then decide how to distribute it, to create pan-European calls. But they are wrestling a thicket of bureaucracy

There’s no sign of a breakthrough just yet, but pressure is building domestically for Bern to re-engage with Brussels in order to get association moving

EU leaders are pushing for ‘strategic autonomy’ in key technologies – but a key to that should be a stronger, standardised EU marketplace, says Portuguese MEP Maria da Graça Carvalho

As the elite of politics and business convene in Davos to talk about geopolitical rifts, resilience and pandemics, heads of EU research Mariya Gabriel and Maria Leptin make pleas for continued investment in basic science

Washington needs researchers in Europe to join the US in trimming artificial intelligence collaboration with China, otherwise any controls will be ineffective. It’s unclear if academics in the EU would get on board with this agenda

A Net-Zero Industry Act and a European Sovereignty Fund aim to attract much needed investment. But research leaders insist Horizon Europe money must not be diverted into another ‘political pet project’

As it gets easier to engineer deadly pathogens, the International Biosecurity and Biosafety Initiative for Science wants tighter controls on custom-order DNA companies, and an end to the current ‘checkbox’ approach to lab safety