The 14 countries in the Arabian, Persian and Turkish Middle East (AP&TME) increased their share of research publications in the Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge from below 2% to more than 4% in the past ten years. Of 21 main fields classified by Essential Science Indicators, engineering and agricultural science were the fields for which […]

To date, the French government has allocated €834 million ($1.3 billion) of its €35 billion stimulus package, the majority of which has been loans from international financial markets. As part of its first installment of the package, coined Investments for the Future, the government announced €220 million for nine national life science and medical research […]

UK Health Secretary Andrew Lansley recently announced the largest amount of funding to date for translational research. The £775 million ($1.3 billion) will be available over five years to NHS/university partnerships through the National Institute for Health Research as part of £4 billion ($6.5 billion) in total R&D funding through March 2015. The priority will […]

Earlier this month, PRO INNO Europe released the 2010 Innovation Union Scoreboard (IUS), a tool for assessing innovation performance. The Scoreboard relies on 25 indicators to capture the performance of national research and innovation systems and assesses the 27 Member States, as well as Croatia, Serbia, Turkey, Iceland, Norway and Switzerland. The indicators fall into […]

The Chinese government plans to spend more to improve county-level quality inspection centers to certify food hygiene, said a senior official. There are 2,862 county-level quality inspection centers in China, and only 1,100 have the ability to administer food-safety tests, according to Wu Jinsheng, director of the technology department at the General Administration of Quality […]