Universities are increasingly looking at other ways of exploiting academic assets, beyond the traditional focus on patenting

At the Munich Security Conference, Bettina Stark-Watzinger made the case that research is now at the centre of geopolitical rivalry. But changing the German research system remains difficult

At an informal meeting in Belgium, EU research ministers and research commissioner Iliana Ivanova agreed on the need to safeguard research funding, after €2.1 billion was cut from Horizon Europe

At 20th anniversary conference of Science|Business, Iliana Ivanova makes political case for ‘high level of investment’ in research

Clinical research backed by the EU is bringing life-saving medicines and health tools to sub-Saharan Africa. This success story offers a valuable lesson as negotiations get underway on the next research programme

The STEP initiative to boost investment in strategic technologies has suffered a blow as member states refuse to hand over fresh funding, but the proposal lacked ambition from the beginning

Parliament’s Christian Ehler tells research stakeholders to stop expecting money to be handed down from on high and start fighting for €200B budget for Framework Programme 10

Research director general says ‘everything is on the table’. Leading MEP tells Science|Business conference the European Institute of Innovation & Technology could have 'common structure' with European Innovation Council

The Commission’s plan to support AI start-ups looks good on paper, but it will fail if not delivered at speed

If FP10 is opened up to defence and dual use research, the rest of the budget must be ringfenced, the annual Science|Business conference heard on Tuesday