R&D News

In an op-ed calling for European renewal, French President Emmanuel Macron gives his explicit support to the EIC, putting an end to speculation over his position

Eight years on, the collapse of Nokia’s mobile phone business continues to reverberate. For Pekka Soini, head of the innovation and investment agency Business Finland, this shows the country can’t afford to put all of its eggs in one basket again

The Commission’s new ‘Task Force EIC’ would include staffers from both its research and SME agencies, as part of a major restructuring of the EU’s research organisation

EU 13 university heads say cost and complexity of winning EU grants means they can’t compete with wealthier peers. But a Commission official tells them to shape up their national support systems if they want to become more successful

Salary thresholds proposed for the UK’s post-Brexit visa system would lock out skilled laboratory technicians. ‘Without them the science we do here would be impossible,’ says Paul Nurse, director of the Crick Institute in London

As newer EU member states complain about brain drain, innovation expert Anita Tregner Mlinaric says increasing salaries is just one part of the answer to luring them home. National research ecosystems need to improve

A drop in government share of global R&D spending sparks alarm – even as political anxiety over the future of technology rises. More than 40 per cent of global R&D is now performed by just 200 companies

At Council meeting, EU member states agree on the programme’s ‘fundamental aspects’, Commissioner says. But they are still debating the details

Replacing top EU research schemes in the UK post-Brexit is ‘a formidable challenge’, says House of Lords. International scientific collaborations could not be replicated at the national level

After the prolonged and – as yet undelivered – promise of a managed process, the UK is bracing for a rocky, no-deal Brexit. We are doing the best we can to find a way through it, a recent Science|Business meeting heard