As the Spanish goverment looks to reduce its budget deficit, government spending on R&D will fall by more than 8 per cent next year, according to one analysis.
The technology is making progress, but there are fears that commercialising solar energy is too dependent on fickle government policy and the price of oil.
A recipient of one of the European Research Council’s first grants, Konstantin Novoselov, has won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his research on graphene.
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