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EU leadership role an opportunity for Tallinn to boost its status as the bloc’s most technology-enabled member

The technology will help predicting the interaction between the plant and environment

By utilizing terahertz waves in electronics, future data traffic can get a big boost forward. So far, the terahertz (THz) frequency has not been optimally applied to data transmission, but by using graphene, researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have come one step closer to a possible paradigm shift for the electronic industry

Former chair of the US House of Representatives science committee Bart Gordon shares lessons he learned from setting up the innovation funding body ARPA-E, to promote advanced energy projects

 

With more responsibilities and less money, the EU sets out plans to overhaul spending and options for new taxes to raise more revenue

EU research chief Robert-Jan Smits talks about the priorities for 2018 – 2020, getting the European Innovation Council off the ground and the changes coming in Framework Programme 9

Comments by Jyrki Katainen at Science|Business conference highlight coming budget battle among researchers, farmers and other EU constituents

The first edition of CERN’s Journal of Experimental Innovation, an open access publication looking at how to direct innovation, is published on Friday. Editor-in-chief Saku Mäkinen outlines its scope

13 new members added in past year to network uniting industry, research and policy

New economic review by Science|Business finds strong evidence of R&D impact – but huge variation in estimates, and uncertainty over which programmes work best

More training to help scientists tunnel through data mountains is badly needed, says Tony Hey, an e-science pioneer. Hey spoke at a recent conference of the ATTRACT open innovation consortium.

Dectris builds its X-ray detector technology into a €30M market niche

After his appointment as COST President in April, Prof Dr Sierd Cloetingh is officially starting his mandate today. As COST President, he will chair the COST general assembly, known as the COST Committee of Senior Officials (CSO). He will be leading the strategic development of the COST Association.