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A new study has found that Germany successfully attracts students from all over the world to its artificial intelligence doctoral programmes – but then loses many of them to other countries, particularly the US, Switzerland and the UK.

Stiftung Neue Verantwortung, a Berlin-based technology think tank, tracked the careers of 305 AI doctoral candidates who had been supervised by Germany’s leading AI researchers.

It takes an average of 3.7 years for new knowledge based on fundamental research to be cited in a patent application, a recent European Research Council report shows.  

The World Economic Forum’s 2023 global risks report has highlighted the potential geopolitical tensions that could develop in the future over the use and exploitation of critical metals and minerals.

EU member states spent a combined €328 billion on research and development in 2021, an increase of 6% over €310 billion in 2020, according to the latest data from the EU statistics agency Eurostat. 

Asian countries were a driving force for global innovation in 2021, with a new report by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) showing that offices in the continent received 67.6% of the 3.4 million patent applications filed that year.

Fewer than one in seven inventors in Europe are women, a first-time study by the European Patent Office (EPO) shows. 

The study found that in 2019 women were named on only 13.2% of all patent applications.  

Respect for academic freedom around the globe is in danger, according to this year’s Free to Think report by Scholars at Risk in its Academic Freedom Monitoring Project.

Last year, India, Hong Kong and the US all experienced particularly sharp declines in academic freedom.

The European Commission has published the results of a public consultation on the joint innovation agenda of the EU and African Union (AU).

The agenda is part of the AU-EU policy dialogue on science technology and innovation. The two parties have regular exchanges on research and innovation policy to set out long-term priorities for strengthening bilateral cooperation.

EU countries in the OECD rich country club invest less in tertiary education than the likes of Chile, US, Canada and the UK, according to a new report.

Europe is home to 15 of the 25 most innovative economies in the world, according to the 2022 Global Innovation Index, published by the World Intellectual Property Organisation (Wipo).

Innovation excellence in Europe continues to be geographically concentrated, the European Commission concludes in the annual innovation scoreboard report published today.

Countries with the status of “innovation leader” or “strong innovator” are located in northern and western Europe. Moderate and emerging innovators are countries in southern and eastern Europe which joined the EU after 2004.

A fifth of the proposals submitted by Czech researchers under Horizon Europe in the past year and a half are to receive funding, according to an early analysis of success rates.

The United States remains the quickest country to get new medicines from clinical trial applications into patients, according to new data from the UK.

On average, it took a 155-day turnaround time in the US to approve trials and then set up a clinical study, including recruiting patients. In the UK, it look nearly 100 days longer on average.

A new in-depth analysis of all research projects funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under Horizon 2020, reveals 55% of all grants combined went to the UK, Germany, France and the Netherlands.

Researchers in the UK won 1,200 grants, representing 18% of the 6,608 ERC projects funded under its single-investigator calls, according to a study released today by the ERC.

Most job listings posted this spring for Ukrainian refugee scientists were in Germany, according to a report by the grassroots organisation Science4Ukraine.

The organisation created a platform where universities and research institutions from around the world could post job openings and other collaboration opportunities for Ukrainian academics who had to flee their country after the Russian invasion in February.

EU member state spending on research and innovation in food systems has declined since 2015, but EU funding of the area through its research framework programmes has grown consistently since 2008, a new report has found.

Food systems research covers everything from agriculture to food waste, to how to persuade people to change their diet. The field is crucial for hitting a variety of environmental and health goals.

Spain is leading EU research into new ways to organise public transport, according to a new report.

The country led and participated in more projects than any other member state, according to an analysis of 163 European and national projects since 2014, found Public transport research and innovation in Europe, an assessment of the field by the Commission’s Joint Research Council.

European corporations are continuing to ramp up their R&D investment in China despite the country’s pandemic-induced isolation and growing geopolitical tension with the Europe and the US.