In March, Brazil announced the BRL 32.9 billion ($16.7 billion) Inova Empresa Plan for innovation, which provides R&D funding for 2013 and 2014. Seventy-three percent of the funding is allocated to seven strategic pillars: agriculture and agribusiness, energy, oil and gas, health, defense, information and communication technology, and environmental sustainability. Funding is available through four […]
In March, Argentina’s government unveiled Innovative Argentina 2020, a plan for R&D for the energy, industry, health, agribusiness, social development, and environment and sustainable development sectors. The strategy targets an increase in R&D investment as a percentage of GDP from 0.65% to 1.65% by 2020, which the government said requires private-sector spending to rise from […]
On March 20, Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne announced the fiscal 2013 UK budget, which takes effect April 1. The budget will provide £1.6 billion ($2.4 billion) to support 11 strategies the government outlined in September 2012, including life sciences, agricultural technology, and oil and gas, although the amount each will receive is not […]
In an attempt for Russian schools to compete with their Western counterparts, the government announced that campuses and student housing will be built at the country’s universities. Currently, only two Russian universities, the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, and the Far Eastern Federal University, have such campuses. In the first phase of the project, […]
According to the “Nature Publishing Index 2012 Asia-Pacific,” Japan leads the region in the number of scientific publications. The Index includes articles, letters and brief communications published in Nature or its 17 research journals in 2012. Asia Pacific accounted for 1,009 publications, or 28% of the global total. Japan published 398 articles, a 9.9% increase. […]
Announced last month, India’s 2014 budget for the country’s Ministry of Science and Technology is set to increase, including both plan and non-plan items (see IBO 8/31/09). Within the Ministry, the budget for the Department of Science and Technology would rise 24.9% to INR 3184.27 crore ($590.4 million). By budget line, the budget for Autonomous […]
The impact of research publications from the BRICK (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Korea) nations is increasing. Based on an analysis of articles found in the 11,500 journals in Thomson Reuters Web of Science, and using 25 broad categories of fields from the Essential Science Indicators database, the frequency of the citation of a country’s […]
China’s State Councilor Ma Kai announced this month that the country will establish a General Administration of Food and Drugs to improve the efficiency of the country’s food safety supervision system. The new Administration will upgrade the existing State Food and Drug Administration, as well as incorporate activities of several government agencies to eliminate conflicting […]
The UK has announced details of its additional £600 million ($967 million) investment in Research Council infrastructure announced last year (see IBO 12/15/12). Big Data programs received £189 million in new funding, which will contribute to research in areas such as bioinformatics and environmental monitoring. Phase 2 of the National Space Technology Programme received £25 […]
Following the discovery of horse meat in processed foods sold in supermarkets in EU countries, the EU is set to require additional food safety tests. In an emergency meeting involving representatives of seven EU nations, the European Commission (EC) has called for 4,000 tests of horse carcasses to detect phenylbutazone, a drug that can harm […]
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