R&D News

Eindhoven president Robert-Jan Smits describes the details and the rationale behind one of Europe’s largest university-industry deals, worth ‘several hundred million’ euros

Commission says changes will make the current system for standard essential patents more transparent, preventing lengthy disputes, but critics say the proposal could delay licence negotiations and royalty payments

The Swiss want to re-join EU’s €26 billion education mobility programme. The wider political relationship is still on the rocks but MEPs are looking to plot a way forward

New threats, such as cancel culture and censoring research by withdrawing funding, are increasing the pressure on universities

Three-fold revamp aims to smooth out the wrinkles in disparate national rules and support the unitary patent system coming into force in June

The number of Polish participants in Horizon Europe has leapt up compared to the early years of the previous framework programme

A fact-finding trip to Budapest has left MEPs from across the political spectrum uneasy. Their impressions of deteriorating academic freedom and self-censorship are at odds with how government representatives portrayed things

The initiative brings together partners from strong, moderate, and emerging innovator regions, to support women innovators and spread the entrepreneurial mindset. Women entrepreneurs in Widening countries give their views of what needs to change

Member states have almost settled on a call to make immediate open access the default, with no author fees. But some say the Council needs to do more to prevent AI-generated papers threatening the integrity of the scientific record

Marc Lemaître says Europe has a significant gap to fill in terms of the technologies needed to make the transition to a green economy - but it can be done