According to its “Delivery Plan” for 2012–13, the UK’s Technology Strategic Board will have a budget of £390 million ($609 million), including an additional £25 million for funding for small and medium-size enterprises. The Board plans to launch 60 competitions for R&D for designated themes, up from 50 during previous year, and award £250 million. […]
The New Zealand government is spending NZ 1.25 billion ($984 million) on R&D this year, or 0.57% of GDP. “Science-led Votes Science and Innovation,” the “Performance-Based Research Fund and Vote,” and “Business-led Votes Science and Innovation” accounts for 53%, 22% and 12% of such spending, respectively. To support high-value manufacturing and services, the new Advanced […]
Emissions for some heavy metals and organic pollutants increased in the EU from 2009 to 2010. The 1999 Gothenburg Protocol of the Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution set limits for four pollutants to be implemented by 2010. Emissions from these pollutants—nitrogen oxide, non-methane volatile compounds, ammonia and sulphur oxide—were reduced by 47%, 56%, 28% […]
According to a May survey of 250 respondents about Brazil, 49% of whom were company finance directors, 60% plan to invest in the country. Brazil was named among the top three Latin American countries for establishing operations by 80% of respondents. For 87%, the top criterion for Brazil’s attractiveness for establishing activities was the domestic […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s call for a restructure of Russian universities could lead to as many as 20% of the country’s 600 universities and 30%–35% of their 1,400 branches closing or merging within the next two to three years. According to the Ministry of Education and Science, the government was slated to provide a proposal […]
New general guidelines issued by India’s biotechnology department and drug regulator on biosimilars will take effect August 15. The guidelines, which took five years to develop, are the country’s first for biosimilars. The guidelines state that to develop biosimilars, firms should consult an original product authorized in India or a product approved and sold in […]
According to independent charity Nesta’s Innovation Index, which was released this month and provides data about UK private-sector spending from 1990 to 2009, €124.2 billion ($203.6 billion) was spent on intangible assets, consisting of “R&D, design, organizational improvement, training and skills development, software development, advertising and market research, and other knowledge investments” in 2009. The […]
The US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Global Agricultural Information Network has supplied an informal translation of China’s 12th Five-Year Plan for National Food Safety Standards, which was published by seven Chinese ministries and government agencies in June. Goals of the Plan include quicker development and revision of food safety standards, the creation of a national […]
In January, when IBO issued its industry forecast for 2012 (see IBO 1/15/12), the industry had just finished two consecutive years of robust growth, which suggested it might be possible for such strong growth to continue. Although at the time we developed the forecast, we did not have the benefit of fourth quarter results for […]
Funding for German universities and research institutes grew 23.0% to €15.5 billion ($20.4 billion) from 1998 to 2010, according to the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft’s (DFG) May Funding Atlas 2012. Government and funding organization support grew 112.0% to €5.3 billion during the period to comprise 26% of total funding. The DFG, the Federal Ministry of Education and […]
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