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OECD's First Skills-First Index Finds No Country Has Fully Moved Past Degree-Based Hiring
The OECD's first Skills-First Readiness and Adoption Index finds Australia, Sweden, France and the UK ahead of the pack, but no country has…
WIPO's 2026 Global Innovation Index Finds R&D Spending Rising, but Researcher Density Still Differs Nearly 50-Fold by Region
WIPO's 19th Global Innovation Index and new UNESCO research data show global R&D spending climbing, but researcher numbers per capita still…
Three 2026 Reports Find Research-Funder Open-Access Mandates Spreading, but Adoption Still Splits Sharply by Region
Three 2026 reports — a 26-million-paper bibliometric study, a funder policy survey and a European Commission review — find open-access mand…
US House Passes Bill Forcing Large AI Data Centers to Pay Their Own Grid Costs
The US House voted 417-3 to pass the Ratepayer Protection Act, pushing state regulators to make large data centers cover their own grid-upg…
Government R&D Budgets Fall in Real Terms as Funding Tilts Toward Defence, OECD and EU Data Show
OECD and Eurostat data for 2024–2025 show government R&D budgets shrinking in real terms across most member countries, with defence researc…