Last month, the Chinese State Council said it will spend $5.5 billion over 10 years to improve monitoring of and cleanup technologies for groundwater. Groundwater is the source of drinking water for about 70% of the Chinese population. The Ministry of Land and Resources claims that 90% of the country’s shallow groundwater is polluted, with […]
Russia’s Ministry of Economic Development has endorsed the Innovative Russia 2020 plan to increase the country’s research investment. The Russian government intends to spend RUB 1.1 trillion ($35.9 billion) annually on research over the next ten years. The plan should boost Russian science spending to 2.5% of GDP. The plan also aims to increase Russia’s […]
The number of EU food safety notifications grew 7.8% from 2009 to 2010 to reach an all-time high of 8,582, according to the Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed’s (RASFF) 2010 Annual Report. The RASFF is the EU’s network for informing member states and the European Commission of food and feed risks. The number […]
UK R&D spending has not kept up with the rate of global R&D spending, despite increasing by about one-third in real terms from 1991 to 2009. In 2008, the UK’s share of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)’s gross expenditure on R&D (GERD) was 4%, down slightly more than a percentage point from […]
China’s R&D expenditure continued to rise in 2010, reaching CNY 706.26 billion ($111.1 billion), a 21.7% increase from 2009. Basic research spending totaled CNY 32.45 billion, an increase of 20.1%. Applied research, which the Chinese government defines as “creative research aiming at obtaining new knowledge on a specific objective or target,” grew 22.3% to CNY […]
Earlier this month, India’s government announced changes regarding takeovers of Indian pharmaceutical companies by international firms to protect against internationals controlling the sector. Brownfield proposals, which are the proposed pharmaceutical company acquisitions by foreign firms, will be monitored for six months by the Foreign Investment Promotion Board. The Competition Commission of India will establish regulations […]
Brazil’s government announced in September that the budget for its science ministry has been slashed 8% to BRL 5.7 billion ($3.0 billion) for 2011. The cut comes after last year’s record budget of $3.3 billion and reflects general spending cuts announced earlier this year. When Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff succeeded Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva […]
Russia is aiming to entice foreign researchers with grants of RUB 150 million ($5 million) each, but some critics believe bureaucratic obstacles may hinder the effort. The Education and Science Ministry began offering the grants in April 2010 to try to lure scientists back to Russia after the 1990s, when insufficient salaries and research support […]
A project announced last month called FairGen could lead to the Faroe Islands being the first place in the world to sequence the genomes of its 50,000 residents. Already in effect in the self-governing Danish territory is a pilot project to sequence the genomes of 100 people. If the approximate $50 million cost of FairGen […]
China published the second-largest amount of scientific papers from 2006 to 2010, according to Elsevier’s Scopus citation database, but its citation per article, which assesses the value and impact of papers, of 1.47 was the lowest of the major 20 publishing countries. Most citations of papers with Chinese lead authors were made by other Chinese […]
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