?tsu, Japan 2/15/11; New Delhi, India 2/15/11—Takara Bio will set up a joint venture with Indian distributor DSS Imagetech for the manufacture and sale of research reagents, kits and instruments. Takara Bio will hold a 51% stake in the new company, which will be named DSS Takara Bio. Takara Bio stated that its goal for […]
Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina both plan to increase research spending. Serbia has announced Serbia 2020, a strategy designed to increase research funding from its current 0.3% of GDP to 2% within a decade. The strategy’s seven key areas, which will receive the majority of funding, are biomedicine, environmental protection, climate change, energy, agriculture, food […]
Earlier this month, PRO INNO Europe released the 2010 Innovation Union Scoreboard (IUS), a tool for assessing innovation performance. The Scoreboard relies on 25 indicators to capture the performance of national research and innovation systems and assesses the 27 Member States, as well as Croatia, Serbia, Turkey, Iceland, Norway and Switzerland. The indicators fall into […]
The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) announced its new research plan, Innovation 2020, in January. The plan continues to support basic research while also focusing on applied research. The budget for the plan, which is a component of the Knowledge Innovation Programme that CAS established in 1998, has not yet been announced, but it is […]
The Chinese government plans to spend more to improve county-level quality inspection centers to certify food hygiene, said a senior official. There are 2,862 county-level quality inspection centers in China, and only 1,100 have the ability to administer food-safety tests, according to Wu Jinsheng, director of the technology department at the General Administration of Quality […]
In November 2010, the German government approved an €11.6 billion ($15.7 billion) spending budget for the Federal Ministry of Education and Research for fiscal 2011. The amount marks an increase of 7.2%. About €910 million ($1.2 billion) of the budget is designated for the Pact for Higher Education, an initiative to increase the number of […]
A new EU bill drafted by the European Commission regarding food contact plastics has been approved by the EU Council of Ministers. Under the proposed law, companies must test whether materials used to make plastics that come in contact with food are safe. Unless the European Parliament unexpectedly opposes it, the bill should become law […]
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) expects the economy to improve slowly over the next two years. In its Economic Outlook, released in December 2010, the OECD predicts growth of 2.3% for OECD countries in 2011, compared with a 2.8% increase in 2010. It expects emerging markets to grow more rapidly, helping to […]
In each year’s forecast issue, IBO takes a look back at the events of the previous year and the trends that emerged. The list is presented in no particular order. Recovery Last year was a year of recovery for analytical instrument and laboratory product sales. On the heels of the global economic upturn, instrument sales […]
In an attempt to entice foreign companies to establish regional headquarters or R&D centers in Japan to counteract its dwindling appeal as a business locale, the Japanese cabinet has approved a package of incentives. The new policy, which will be effective in April, entitles foreign firms that meet the requirements to receive a 20% tax […]
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