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This mom spent $2,000 on her kindergartner as viral ‘back-to-school hauls’ on TikTok and YouTube spin out of control

Students and parents are breaking their back-to-school budgets thanks to inflation and social-media trends.

This mom spent $2,000 on her kindergartner as viral ‘back-to-school hauls’ on TikTok and YouTube spin out of control

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The chink in Europe’s innovation armour

Europe’s strength arguably has been, and still is, innovation. However, there are other contenders on the block, and their ability to commercialise that research is attracting European-bred talent to…

  • Europe invests €403 billion in R&D in 2024, employing 2.21 million researchers.
  • European innovation lags behind US, Japan, South Korea with R&D representing only 2.24% of EU GDP.

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