The OECD applauds EU support for start-ups, but warns that grant funding can lull innovators into a false sense of security

With venture funds in short supply, Europe’s quantum companies need users to de-risk technologies and draw in private investors

The EU innovation agency wants to be more agile, as it plans to fund dual-use projects and create closer links with other EU funding institutions

The UK, Switzerland and New Zealand push back against plans to dilute the independence of the next Framework Programme in a broader Competitiveness Fund

The European Research Council is working hard to find its place in an EU discourse driven by economic impact

Governments are invited to use EU auction and grant instruments to back promising cleantech projects which don’t win EU funding