Viewpoint

A Trump salvo against the EU’s Horizon research programme opens a new area of Transatlantic conflict. Time for Europe to step up

Making moves to encourage researchers to move around Europe is the way to promote excellence overall

Universities should not be viewed as graduate factories. They need to get back to their core ethos, and educate students to think. Learning by doing is the way forward

UK science campaigner Mike Galsworthy, depleted after losing his all-consuming campaign to keep UK in the EU, says he has found a new fighting purpose for 2020

Technologies are advancing at an exponential rate. So why aren’t our economies? The father of open innovation gives his view

After decades of research – much of it funded by the public - gene therapy is a reality. Now high costs are blocking patient access. Prices should be constrained

Research leaders battling EU budget cuts should take a leaf from the farmers’ playbook: Get better organized, and get noisier

It is naïve to put EU research data on the open science cloud without having a plan to protect intellectual property. ‘That makes me nervous,’ says Joseph Straus, former director of the Max Planck Institute for IP

Working with countries in Africa, the EU has fostered innovation that is making an important contribution to the fight against AIDS. To build on this, the new Africa-EU partnership now taking shape needs more ambitious goals

Dropping research from the title of incoming R&D commissioner Mariya Gabriel is a worrying sign Brussels is pursuing commercialisation at the expense of basic science, says Svein Stølen, rector of Oslo University