Mexico

Newly elected President Enrique Peña Nieto plans to create a scientific road map for the nation. The road map will aim to increase funding for science to a minimum of 1% of GDP, compared with the current figure of 0.4%. The road map will also seek to create a closer collaboration between academic institutions and industry, to fortify the country’s innovation system, and to create a foundation to fund science. The plan will also seek to create specific regional policies and to increase the role of the National Council of Science and Technology. The country’s 2013 budget raised science and technology funding 11.5%, the largest increase in eight years. A Mexican law passed in 2002 already requires that science funding equal 1% of GDP. Source: SciDev.net

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