Commission’s support is on the right track - but the measures lack coherence and visibility, says European Court of Auditors

NSF Engines, a new programme of the US National Science Foundation, aims to spread the tech wealth more broadly across the nation – tackling a regional policy problem common to many countries

The first 63 regions, seven cities and four countries are selected for the Partnerships for Regional Innovation pilot, as part of the upcoming European Innovation Agenda

A year in, the preliminary plans for the €55.3B research partnerships appear to be on track to help advance EU’s green, digital and health goals

Expanding the scope of the programme to include technologies ‘that may not be innovative’ is not the way to reduce EU greenhouse gas emissions

Opening Europe up to gene edited crops would be good for start-ups, but clumsy deregulation could cost Europe dear

Joint research calls, supply chain monopolies and standards setting. All these topics and more were on the agenda at a meeting in Washington DC. China was shut out, opening a geopolitical fault line in a critical technology of the future

The Research Excellence Framework involved 900 academics scrutinising more than 185,000 pieces of research. 41% of UK research is world leading, while 43% is internationally excellent, the review finds

Grant agreements with companies that have been waiting for Accelerator financing since October will be concluded early next month. But equity funding will not follow until ‘after June’

Last year’s award winners are still waiting for their money. MEP Christian Ehler tells Science|Business that if the problem is not sorted out, he will push for the EIC Accelerator to be defunded