The EU’s push for ‘strategic autonomy’ overlooks its longtime underinvestment in military and civilian R&D, and a need for broad market reforms, argues US innovation scholar Charles Wessner

Luxembourger Marc Lemaître will lead the Commission’s research directorate as EU’s €95.5 billion research framework approaches key milestones

Success rates are up, UK and Swiss participation down, and Widening countries edge up to the EU 27 average. And on the third anniversary of Brexit, the UK’s five top universities, usually among the biggest winners of EU R&D funding, are feeling the pinch

It’s unclear to what extent tech companies will sign up to the voluntary guidelines, and exactly how it will fit with the EU’s AI Act. But there are signs the EU and US approaches should be interoperable

Greater integration between research and technology transfer at Cancer Research UK is supporting the formation of more start-ups and fostering the development of an international network of academic partners with complementary skills and capabilities

Global tensions are changing the way science interacts with economic and security policy in Japan, as elsewhere. Before the next G7 summit, to be held in Hiroshima in May, the voice of science must be heard

Current policies to strengthen the EU’s tech competitiveness and autonomy risk back-firing, by closing off vital R&D collaboration with like-minded partners, says GE Aerospace official

EU research commissioner Mariya Gabriel hopes to open negotiations with Japan and South Korea, and foresees Canada will be on board the EU’s €95.5B research programme in the first half of the year

Hungarian minister Tibor Navracsics says the government is open to changing the structure of public trust foundations to appease EU rule of law concerns

Washington has cut off access to leading artificial intelligence and supercomputing components to stymie Chinese military prowess. But this will have knock on effects on research