The Government of Canada has committed $518 million in research infrastructure funding through the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI). The funding is going to support 102 projects at 35 post-secondary institutions and research hospitals across the country. The government called the financing a way to help Canada keep at the “forefront of exploration, innovation and discovery.” The CFI is a 20-year-old, independent, not-for-profit organization that invests in research facilities and equipment in Canada’s universities, colleges, research hospitals, and non-profit research institutions. The $518 million in investments were made through the CFI’s Innovation Fund, which supports 40 percent of infrastructure costs across a spectrum of research projects, which includes technological innovation. The projects being funded span a number of areas, including speeding up Canada’s vaccine production and working with the University of Ryerson to build a new, smart-campus testing lab focused on the “smart home” and “smart office.”

Germany and France are set to launch joint innovation projects in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) to deepen their close cooperation in this field in the future. As part of a new call for bids for funding, both countries are providing €10 million each over the next three years. In initiating a new call for projects, Germany and France want to financially support innovation projects between the two countries on artificial intelligence technologies. The basis for the cooperation is the 2019 Treaty of Aachen. The call for projects is being administrated by the DLR Project Management Agency and Bpifrance. At the centre of the joint projects will be the expansion of the European AI ecosystem. The aim is to strengthen Europe's economic sovereignty and to make the European economy more resilient. The total investment in European technology hardware will reach 50 billion euros ($60 billion). The global semiconductor market is 440 billion euros, and Europe accounts for about 10%. At present, the European Union mainly relies on imports in terms of chips. Germany, France, and 17 other EU member states have agreed to join forces to invest in processor and semiconductor technologies that are vital to Internet equipment and data processing, catching up with the United States and Asia in this field.

The German Federal Cabinet adopted a framework programme on microelectronics, endowed with 400 million euros, with a focus on memory chips and processors. The aim is to "remain technologically sovereign and mature" with these very research-intensive basic technologies of digitalization. In this way, "geopolitical risks" should also be avoided. The German government agreed on a strategy to boost the use of data for commercial purposes. Separately, the German Cabinet approved a package of more than 240 measures to promote the use of data as a resource for new business models.