R&D News

Investment in later stage clinical development is needed to back up recent improvements in the discovery of new antibiotics, and to ensure the use of novel products is managed to maintain their effectiveness  

The stated intent is to end secrecy around journal pricing and allow easier cost comparison for funders and libraries

UK science campaigner Mike Galsworthy, depleted after losing his all-consuming campaign to keep UK in the EU, says he has found a new fighting purpose for 2020

A new report by the European Commission says forcing foreign businesses to share their technologies in exchange for market access is a “systemic problem” in China

Researchers will get funding to look into business opportunities, patent discoveries or build prototypes

In an interview Mariya Gabriel says her priorities include establishment of a European Knowledge Strategy, and reducing the east-west performance gap

EU research chief Mariya Gabriel says basic principles of UK participation in EU research programmes will be the same as for other non-EU members

Ursula von der Leyen says both sides will have to "prioritise" which elements are negotiated before the end of 2020

MPs defeat opposition amendment to Brexit bill that would have committed UK to negotiating student scheme access in 2020

Technologies are advancing at an exponential rate. So why aren’t our economies? The father of open innovation gives his view