R&D News

With budget planning underway, EU Commissioner makes the case for supporting company growth and technology diffusion

Economist Mariana Mazzucato publishes a how-to kit for managing new funding formula. Missions should be ambitious - even risky - but also “realistically feasible”

'High-flying' civil servant Jean-Eric Paquet picked to replace Robert-Jan Smits, in move tying DG Research closer to central administration

Makeover at the top as director general for research and innovation, Robert-Jan Smits is replaced by Jean-Eric Paquet and new recruits are lined up for nine other posts

Some see National Science Foundation move as latest retreat in US diplomacy under Trump administration – but agency says it will send more science envoys on visits abroad

Advisor lays out plan for how Europe can strengthen manufacturing base and keep pace with rivals in ‘key enabling technologies’

A new Science|Business report finds costs may be lower than expected for the EU’s ambitious plans to better connect researchers and their data across the continent – and examines ways to fund it

Fast-changing draft of next EU Framework Programme highlights Macron’s plan for ‘disruptive innovation’ and bridging east-west research divide – but nothing is finalised yet

Fiscal stimulus plan has to date unlocked €257B in public and private funding for infrastructure projects across the EU, the president of EIB told MEPs, as he defended fossil fuel investments and anticipated the fallout from Brexit

The country’s local governments are mobilising to avert a knock-on budget hit from Brexit