Company Announcements In 2007, Biolin AB acquired UK-based Nima Technology, a provider of Langmuir Blodgett instruments for the analysis of monolayers and of tensiometers. Brightwell Scientific announced in November 2007 that Benelux Scientific will distribute its Micro Flow Imaging particle analysis products in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. On January 1, Setaram began exclusively distributing […]
New Orleans, Louisiana, played host to the 59th annual Pittsburgh conference and exhibition (Pittcon), which was held March 1–7 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. Although Pittcon took place against a backdrop of escalating fears of a US recession, one would have never known it. Companies were upbeat about future business prospects and the […]
New Zealand’s Fast Forward plan is designed to transform the economy into a more formidable supplier of high value goods and services. Under the plan, the government will allocate NZ$700 million ($570 million) to the pastoral and food industries. The funding will grow interest over the next 10 to 15 years, and will be valued […]
Blossom Associati and Assobiotec report that since 2000 the Italian biotech industry has grown 7% on average, adding about 15 new companies per year. Sales of Italian biotech products and licensing operations have reached $5.5 billion, or 0.04% of the Italian GDP. From 2006 to 2007, the value of the country’s biotech market increased 19.3%. […]
In an effort to increase its strength in science and innovation, Canada’s proposed budget for 2008 contains an $80 million per year increase for its three university granting councils for research in support of industrial innovation, health priorities, and social and economic development. Genome Canada, which has six genome center around the country, will receive […]
Japanese R&D funding increased last year, but at a modest level, according to the latest data from the Japanese government. According to recent figures, the country’s total R&D spending rose in fiscal 2006 (April 2006–March 2007), continuing an upward trend, led by spending by private companies. In addition, government R&D funding is set to increase […]
On January 15, the Korean Science and Technology Ministry released a plan to place Korea among the top three countries for nanotechnology by 2020. According to the plan, by 2020, Korean companies would control 20% of the global nanotechnology market, generating sales of $260 billion per year by 2015 and $500 billion in 2020. Nano-element […]
Last year, China purchased more than $1.5 billion in analytical instrumentation. As one of the fastest growing markets for laboratory instrumentation, China is a focus of major investments by foreign instrument companies, which are rapidly building their sales and marketing, service and manufacturing capabilities in the country. China is also home to a large domestic […]
The Chilean Economic Development Agency (CORFO) estimates that $100 million will be spent on R&D in the country during 2008 through InnovaChile, CORFO’s innovation department. If private industry meets government investment, total R&D funding could reach $200 million this year. The majority of funding will go to clusters recommended by the National Council of Innovation […]
: In January, the World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved a $13.4 million loan for Kazakhstan’s Technology Commercialization Project (TCP). The TCP has a total budget of $75 million, $61.6 million of which comes from Kazakhstan’s government, and seeks to restore some of the country’s scientific capacity, which was strong during the Soviet era. […]
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