The results of industry group France Biotech’s Life Science Panorama 2010 survey emphasize the emergence of a second generation of—and government support for—biotech firms in the medtech, environmental and renewable energy sectors. The analysis, released March 30, includes responses from 211 companies and reveals that despite increases in fund raising and staff in 2010, 33% […]
China’s Premier Wen Jiabao stressed the importance of streamlining government science funding in his annual report at the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference in March. Funding for Chinese researchers is currently dependent on how many of their publications are found in Thomson Reuters’ Science Citation Index and the influence of the journals in which they […]
In February, Brazil’s new president Dilma Rousseff announced a surprise 23% cut to the version of the Ministry of Science and Technology’s 2011 budget that had been approved by Congress, reducing it from BRL $8.1 billion ($4.9 billion) to BRL $6.3 billion. The amount is an 18% decrease from last year’s budget. After the cuts […]
The 14 countries in the Arabian, Persian and Turkish Middle East (AP&TME) increased their share of research publications in the Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge from below 2% to more than 4% in the past ten years. Of 21 main fields classified by Essential Science Indicators, engineering and agricultural science were the fields for which […]
On March 23, Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne announced the 2011 UK budget, which includes a number of measures to improve UK R&D. The budget adds £100 million ($162 million) for research infrastructure at existing campuses and clusters. The National Institute for Health Research will award a minimum of £775 million over five years […]
The Japanese government has proposed its fiscal 2012 science and technology budget of ¥3,648.5 billion ($45.6 billion). The amount marks an increase of 2.1% and accounts for 0.75% of the country’s GDP. The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry is designated ¥586.2 billion, an increase of 8.8%. The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and […]
To date, the French government has allocated €834 million ($1.3 billion) of its €35 billion stimulus package, the majority of which has been loans from international financial markets. As part of its first installment of the package, coined Investments for the Future, the government announced €220 million for nine national life science and medical research […]
UK Health Secretary Andrew Lansley recently announced the largest amount of funding to date for translational research. The £775 million ($1.3 billion) will be available over five years to NHS/university partnerships through the National Institute for Health Research as part of £4 billion ($6.5 billion) in total R&D funding through March 2015. The priority will […]
Major developing economies, most notably China, drove 2010’s economic recovery and are expected to dominate economic growth in coming years. In 2010, China surpassed Germany to become the world’s second-largest economy. This year, China’s economy is expected to grow 8.7%, according to the World Bank’s January forecast. The World Bank forecasts developing countries’ real GDP […]
India’s proposed fiscal 2011–2012 (April 1, 2011–March 31, 2012) general budget, announced February 28, shows an ongoing commitment to science and technology funding. The government expects to pass the final budget by March 24. The budget involves both Plan and Non-Plan expenditure. Plan spending is the Ministries’ spending outlined in the country’s 11th Five-Year Plan […]
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