A senior science advisor to the country’s government tells Science|Business why science relations with the US and China are now fraught

Greater R&D investment and deployment at forefront of call for an “ambitious and forward-looking” revision to the EU Chips Act 

Preprint data suggests that boycotts over the country’s war on Gaza are beginning to take effect

France Digitale calls for treaty reform to make tech and innovation a genuine shared competence between EU and member states

Action must start on campus, but cannot succeed without broader support

Industry wants funding fitted to its needs, but other says data must flow to move the whole sector forward

CEO of Croatian AI start-up calls for a “level playing field” in European scale-up funding

Cohesion funds are tied to regional smart specialisation strategies, but these are divorced from EU industrial priorities

For some MEPs defence-linked research is imperative, for others a threat to openness, academic autonomy and simplification

In a demoralising speech, the godfather of the EU’s new competitiveness agenda calls for more ambition and faster reforms