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What Thailand's Election of a Radical New Government Means for Science

What Thailand's Election of a Radical New Government Means for Science

The new government faces a difficult task to stimulate research and development, hampered by an unskilled workforce. The election result comes as the country is pursuing plans to move from a heavy-industry-based economy to one geared towards innovation, known as Thailand 4.0.

EU Research and Innovation Policy Should Be More Geographically-minded

EU Research and Innovation Policy Should Be More Geographically-minded

EU funding for research and innovation should have a geographical dimension to help bridge innovation divides in the EU, Lina Gálvez Muñoz MEP tells Science|Business.

Marc Lemaître Takes Up the Reins at Research and Innovation Directorate

Marc Lemaître Takes Up the Reins at Research and Innovation Directorate

Marc Lemaître, the new chief of the EU's research directorate takes office today, he will apply his experience in Cohesion policy to promote greater coordination between research funding and regional development funding, increasing the impact of both.

The Best Science, Innovation and Health Stories of 2022

The Best Science, Innovation and Health Stories of 2022

2022 was great for science, from historic space missions to archeological discoveries and plenty to learn in medicine.

'Do No Significant Harm' Principle in Horizon Europe is a Chance to Rethink Policy

'Do No Significant Harm' Principle in Horizon Europe is a Chance to Rethink Policy

The European Commission's acknowledgement that research and innovation have the potential to generate environmental harms can be viewed as a landmark in the history of research policy.

We Are Putting Science, Innovation and Evidence at the Heart of the Home Office

We Are Putting Science, Innovation and Evidence at the Heart of the Home Office

Dr Jason Dewhurst talks 'embedding a scientifically inquisitive and analytically curious culture across the Home Office'

Viewpoint: Making the Case for the European Innovation Council's Top Down Research Programmes

Viewpoint: Making the Case for the European Innovation Council's Top Down Research Programmes

The European Innovation Council's (EIC) future will involve more horizon scanning, intelligence and strategy, according to a programme manager responsible for scoping the potential for technological and innovation breakthroughs and for directing EIC health-related projects, to ensure there is a coherent plan that will support development of a competitive sector.

How Social Sciences and Humanities Programs Can Prepare Students for Employment

How Social Sciences and Humanities Programs Can Prepare Students for Employment

Internships and work-integrated learning for social sciences and humanities students can be part of how post-secondary institutions increase their capacities to contribute to social innovation.

Out of Thin Air: New Solar-powered Invention Creates Hydrogen Fuel from the Atmosphere

Out of Thin Air: New Solar-powered Invention Creates Hydrogen Fuel from the Atmosphere

Researchers say their prototype produces hydrogen with greater than 99% purity and works in air as dry as 4% relative humidity

European Universities Alliances Put Start-Ups on the Curriculum

European Universities Alliances Put Start-Ups on the Curriculum

The European Universities initiative was conceived to develop higher education across the EU, with a tight focus on students and teaching. Higher education institutions from different countries were invited to form alliances and bid for Erasmus + funds to develop joint curricula and boost mobility. But innovation and entrepreneurship increasingly appear in the alliance playbook, particularly when the partners are close to the market.

The Ecosystem: Innovation Agenda Puts Policy Impetus Behind Closing Europe's Innovation Gap

The Ecosystem: Innovation Agenda Puts Policy Impetus Behind Closing Europe's Innovation Gap

The Commission's Innovation Agenda, adopted last week, has been welcomed in central and eastern Europe for its high-profile acknowledgement of the innovation divide within Europe, and for nailing down the EU's most urgent innovation challenges.

The Ecosystem: European Patent Office Survey Shows Strict Novelty Requirement is Undermining High-potential Inventions in Europe

The Ecosystem: European Patent Office Survey Shows Strict Novelty Requirement is Undermining High-potential Inventions in Europe

Europe may be missing out on lucrative new products, start-ups, and even potential unicorns.

MIT Grads Demonstrate First Ammonia-powered Tractor

MIT Grads Demonstrate First Ammonia-powered Tractor

Amogy, a startup founded by four MIT grads, has transformed a John Deere into the world's first zero-emission, ammonia-powered tractor.

EU Launches Policy Framework to Improve Regional Innovation Support

EU Launches Policy Framework to Improve Regional Innovation Support

The EU today launched a pilot project aiming to help regions coordinate regional, national and EU research and innovation policies, and to bridge the many gaps in Europe's fragmented innovation ecosystems.

The Ecosystem: U.S. Aims to Grow Innovation Clusters Beyond Silicon Valley and Boston

The Ecosystem: U.S. Aims to Grow Innovation Clusters Beyond Silicon Valley and Boston

NSF Engines, a new programme of the US National Science Foundation, aims to spread the tech wealth more broadly across the nation – tackling a regional policy problem common to many countries

EU Start-ups in Limbo As Commission Dithers over European Innovation Council Equity Fund

EU Start-ups in Limbo As Commission Dithers over European Innovation Council Equity Fund

The European Innovation Council's (EIC) Accelerator funding for start-ups continues to be held up as the Commission's directorates fight over how to manage the new equity fund. The delays are affecting companies selected to receive 'blended finance' - a mix of grant and equity funding - following the June cut-off date last year, the first under Horizon Europe. But the impact may soon be felt by those next in line, which were selected for funding following the October cut-off.

Canada Announces New Innovation Agency - and It's Not Modelled on DARPA

Canada Announces New Innovation Agency - and It's Not Modelled on DARPA

The unit will instead mimic Finnish and Israeli agencies. But some researchers worry Canada might be too big and regionalized for the scheme to succeed.