R&D News

Mark Walport, the most powerful figure in UK science, talks about maintaining a strong voice in the EU capital, and how to get it right on mission-led research

The benefits from EU money spent on deploying new air traffic management systems are far from clear, says the European Court of Auditors. However, EU-level planning and regulation has helped to coordinate national investments

Three EU-funded supercomputers in Bulgaria, Czech Republic and Slovenia will attract more big science projects, lure back expatriate researchers and help reduce the innovation gap between east and west

An online shop window aims to link recipients of proof of concept grants with business angels interested in adding cash and expertise to take projects forward

Decisions over research, farm and other EU budgets postponed to the end of 2019, as EU Council divides over top EU leadership jobs

Gunnar Bovim, rector at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, wants to combat the brain drain from developing countries. They need expertise more than we do, he says

Molecular biologist and former rector, now turned MP, Marianne Synnes Emblemsvåg talks to Science|Business about making parliament a more research-friendly place

The European Commission’s 18th annual innovation scoreboard shows the EU has overtaken the US for the first time, while across Europe, the UK and Luxembourg lose their innovation leader status and Estonia joins the ranks of strong innovators