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EIC was conceived as a bottom up innovation fund, but the move to backing top down and targeted research is now filling gaps that researcher-led projects cannot

Science|Business is launching a brand-new newsletter focusing on the research and innovation divide in Europe

Widening is essential to create an interconnected pan-European innovation ecosystem that reaches out to every corner of Europe and acts as a catalyst in driving the green and digital transitions - and in promoting growth and prosperity

Spotting artificial intelligence-generated fake articles that threaten to undermine the scientific process is a joint responsibility. All researchers can play a part by making time to read research intelligently - as if reading a great novel

Earlier this summer, the EU issued a new plan to nurture ‘deep tech’ and other innovation. Here, research commissioner Gabriel explains the goal

There is a clear need to increase food production, but in the face of climate change, emerging diseases, soil erosion, a shortage of agricultural workers and other problems, the knowledge and technologies we have today are clearly insufficient to achieve this

Two research leaders tell Science|Business about their vision for the recovery and modernisation of Ukraine’s R&D system. This work is critical because revitalising the country as a whole will depend on shifting the economy to science-intensive, high added-value technologies

Four research leaders urge a step-change in international R&D collaboration, starting with challenges in wireless, hydrogen, epidemiology and other fields

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

As Japan enters early-stage talks on Horizon Europe association, head of Kyoto-based Science and Technology in Society forum urges joint research to speed up the green energy transition