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If AI Becomes Conscious: Here's How Researchers Will Know

If AI Becomes Conscious: Here's How Researchers Will Know

Many researchers say that AI systems aren’t yet at the point of consciousness, but that the pace of AI evolution has got them pondering: how would we know if they were? A checklist derived from six neuroscience-based theories could aid in the assessment. 

Citizens' Perceptions of Research and Innovation Dilemmas: Insights from a Large-Scale Survey in Four European Regions

Citizens' Perceptions of Research and Innovation Dilemmas: Insights from a Large-Scale Survey in Four European Regions

This study presents a valuable dataset supporting regional research and innovation systems in four European regions: Vestland (Norway), Kriti (Greece), Galicia (Spain), and Overijssel (Netherlands). It focuses on understanding citizens’ perceptions of research and innovation dilemmas within these regions. 

Spanish EU Presidency to Spearhead Strategic Direction for Research and Innovation Policy

Spanish EU Presidency to Spearhead Strategic Direction for Research and Innovation Policy

Europe, closer: with that statement of intent Spain has kicked off its six-month stint leading the EU. For science this means a focus on expanding the reach of research and innovation and at the same time advancing with North Africa and Latin America.

The Ecosystem: The Race is on to Choose Europe's Regional Innovation Valleys

The Ecosystem: The Race is on to Choose Europe's Regional Innovation Valleys

The European Commission plans to designate 100 locations across Europe as Regional Innovation Valleys, in a bid to strengthen innovation in EU priority areas and encourage collaboration between more and less advanced regions. 

European Commission Sets Up New European Innovation Council Unit in the Research Directorate

European Commission Sets Up New European Innovation Council Unit in the Research Directorate

The European Commission has reorganised its directorate general for research and innovation (RTD) in order to give it better oversight of the European Innovation Council (EIC), with a new organisation chart published last week showing management of the innovation funding programme has been moved to a new unit. The unit will sit in the directorate for the European Research Area and Innovation, which is led by Anna Panagopoulou.

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.