This month, the European Parliament’s Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety released a draft report on fraud in the EU food chain. Although the incidence of food fraud is increasing, the EU has no framework in place to address it and methods for dealing with it vary widely among member states. The […]

India’s estimated gross expenditure on R&D in current prices grew 17.0% in 2012 to INR 72,620.44 crores ($13.6 billion) to make up 0.88% of GDP. R&D expenditures by the central sector, which consisted of central government departments and public sector/joint sector companies, accounted for 59% of total R&D expenditures and grew 16.0%. Private sector R&D […]

France’s government has unveiled its 2014 draft budget, in which spending for research and higher education remain virtually the same. The Higher Education and Research Ministry’s budget will increase 0.5% to €23.4 billion ($32.5 billion) and exceed €26 billion including support from other ministries. The €7.8 billion research budget represents a 1.0% cut to the […]

The UK government’s net expenditure (funding from the science budget) on the Research Councils’ R&D fell 2.3% in 2012 to £3,194 million ($5,070 million) in real terms. All figures below are net expenditures in real terms. Government net expenditures on R&D fell for all Councils except the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, for which […]

Despite China’s slower economic growth, chemical product sales are expected to remain strong. In 2011, the output of the country’s chemical industry increased 9.0% to RNB 7.2 trillion ($1.17 trillion), according to KPMG China. Through 2015, industry output is expected to grow in the range of 9%–11% annually. The China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation […]