Tokyo, Japan 9/25/07—Japan’s Nikkei News reports that Toshiba, Canon, Toray Industries, Yokogawa Electric and seven other Japanese firms, supported by the Kazusa DNA Research Institute, will form a consortium to develop microarrays for applications in diagnostic medicine, food and environmental analysis. According to Nikkei, the Japanese microarray market will total ¥100 billion ($869.2 million) by […]
Kingdom: Preliminary results from a survey by the Sensors and Instrumentation Knowledge Transfer Network (SIKTN) show that 57% of UK sensor and scientific instrument companies plan to boost research spending in the next year. On average, sensor and instrument companies in the UK intend to increase research spending by 10%. In addition, 75% of the […]
Last year, China invested CNY 300.3 billion ($39.9 billion)—an increase of 22.6%, or CNY 55.3 billion, over 2005—in R&D, according to a statement released this month by the National Bureau of Statistics, the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Finance. R&D spending in 2006 represented 1.42% of the country’s GDP, a new […]
Last month, Forfás—Ireland’s board for enterprise, trade, science, technology and innovation—published the first findings of its survey of R&D in the higher education sector (HERD) for the academic year 2006 (September 2005–August 2006). HERD spending reached €600.6 million ($730.2 million) in 2006, and has risen 10.5% on average since 2004. HERD spending reached 0.40% of […]
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is examining new research that links food coloring and hyperactivity in children. The EFSA plans to review 45 colorings currently used in Europe by the end of 2008, and will rule on the coloring Allura Red later in the year. These reviews are based on the assessment of published […]
Malaysia has steadily been working to establish itself in the global biotech industry through government and private enterprise efforts. The future heart of the Malaysian biotech industry will be BioValley, a biotech zone south of Kuala Lumpur. To date, the government has invested $26 million in BioValley and it is expected to be operational by […]
This month, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) released a report that consolidates its research on China’s innovation policies. The research was requested by China’s Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) and is the fruit of several fact-finding operations by the OECD, an October 2006 workshop held in Chongqing, China, on the evaluation […]
his month, the Turkish Statistical Institute published the results of its “2005 Research and Development Activities Survey.” According to the results, gross domestic expenditure on R&D (GERD) in 2005 was TRY 3.83 billion ($2.83 billion), or 0.79% of GDP. The higher education sector was responsible for 54.62% of 2005’s R&D expenditure, business enterprises—which includes state […]
According to the Forum for European-Australian Science and Technology Cooperation (FEAST), Australian biotech firms have been successful in raising capital during the first half year, ended June 30. Drug development and device companies raised a record AUD 500 million ($422.7 million) from IPOs and other capital raising efforts. Biotech firms Avexa, Acrux and Progen together […]
China has announced that it is in the middle of a $1.1 billion spending plan for the improvement of food safety. The plan started two years ago; however, news of the plan, which is expected to be completed by 2010, was only released this month. Funding from the plan will be used for a new […]
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