Pakistan’s government has pledged to boost R&D spending from 0.59% to 2% of the country’s GDP by 2020 under its proposed Science, Technology and Innovation Policy, a ten-year plan. The Policy lists areas that require attention, including demand-driven research and relationships among science and technology institutions, and aims to establish an intellectual property rights system […]
The European Commission’s health-research division is contributing €30 million ($41 million) to the new BLUEPRINT epigenome project. More than 50 European researchers from 41 organizations, which will provide an additional €10 million to the project, will generate at least 100 reference epigenomes, making headway in the International Human Epigenome Consortium’s objective of accumulating 1,000 reference […]
A first-of-its-kind national cancer genetic testing program commences this month in the UK. The Stratified Medicine Program, managed by Cancer Research UK, will analyze tumor samples of 9,000 patients with one of six common cancers to customize treatment to the tumor’s genetic composition. Seven hospitals and three laboratories will be involved in testing the samples […]
R&D expenditure in Sweden totaled SEK 113.2 billion ($17.8 billion) in 2010, an increase of 1.4% from 2009. R&D expenditure in the government sector increased 10.1% to SEK 5.5 billion. Government expenditure includes government agency, county council, municipal, and local and regional R&D spending and does not include Agreement on Medical Training and Research funds, […]
The Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) announced earlier this month that it will invest $244 million in 64 projects in protein research, quantum technology, nanotechnology, development and reproductive biology, stem cells, and Earth science. The funding is part of the sixth year of MOST’s National Major Scientific Research Program, which invested $160 million […]
China’s efforts to revamp its health-care system are attracting pharmaceutical companies to the country. In 2009, the government said it would invest CNY 850 billion ($131 billion) in the system and provide health insurance to 90% of citizens by the end of this year and to every citizen by 2020. The 2010 census found that […]
The 2010 EU Survey on R&D Investment Business Trends has found that EU-based companies expect their R&D investments to increase an average of 5% annually from 2010 to 2013. The survey is based on the response of 205 companies with combined R&D investments of nearly €40 billion ($57.7 billion) and an average of 1,250 R&D […]
Brazil’s government announced last month that it will award 75,000 science and technology scholarships by the end of 2014 to students studying domestically and internationally. The BRL 3.16 billion ($2.02 billion) initiative will be funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology’s National Council for Scientific and Technological Development and the Ministry of Education’s Federal […]
As part of a MYR 741 million ($251.2 million) research fund for Malaysia’s Ministry of Higher Education under the Tenth Malaysia Plan (10MP), MYR 178.4 million has been designated for 1,022 research grants. The amount is intended for R&D for a project’s first two years and extends to public and private higher learning institutions, research […]
The amount of science papers published by the member countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has increased, according to a recent study that analyzed papers included in the Institute for Science Information science citation index journals. ASEAN countries accounted for just 0.5% of the world’s science papers, or 165,000 papers, from 1991 […]
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