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Germany's Sprind innovation agency aims to reinvigorate the economy from a former railway logistics building in Leipzig.

The European Union needs a revamped single market that includes a “fifth freedom” dedicated to the free movement of research, innovation, knowledge and education, according to a high-profile policy ...

The European Parliament has welcomed plans laid out by the new research commissioner Ekaterina Zaharieva for a European Innovation Act. “As the Draghi report has highlighted, Europe is failing to ...

Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform (STEP), the EU’s plan to mobilise investments in the digital, deep tech, cleantech and biotech sectors, survived by the skin of its teeth as negotiators from ...

Global R&D spending grew faster than the economy between 2014 and 2018 as countries around the world turned to research to bring on the green and digital transitions, says a new UNESCO report.