Company Announcements Spectrum Chemicals & Laboratory Products announced a partnership with SGE Analytical Science in fall 2010 to distribute SGE’s ProteCol HPLC columns. BioSystem Development announced in November 2010 a collaboration with BAC BV to develop high-affinity ligands for its AssayMAP platform. BAC will contribute its CaptureSelect Antibody Toolbox affinity ligands. Semba Biosciences partnered with […]
Company Announcements Ingenuity Systems integrated its IPA software with TransMed System’s XB Bio-Integration Suite, Geospiza’s Genesifter software for next-generation sequencing (NGS) workflows, and CLC bio’s software for array and NGS data analysis. Advanced Chemistry Development entered into a five-year research collaboration with the FDA to develop quantitative structure-activity relationship toxicity models for regulatory and research […]
Company Announcements Shrink Nanotechnologies gained an exclusive right to use and sublicense Corning’s modular “plug-and-play” microfluidic system for at least eight years. Caliper Life Sciences is collaborating with Sony DADC Austria AG to develop and manufacture plastic consumables for its next-generation microfluidics products using Sony’s Blu-ray Disc manufacturing technology. They have developed consumables for the […]
Company Announcements Hitachi High-Technologies filed a new suit in September 2010 in Tokyo District Court to request damages related to its charges of infringement by FEI Japan of focused ion beam patents. This suit involves different patent rights than an earlier suit (see IBO 7/15/10). FEI is collaborating with Nanonics Imaging to explore the possibility […]
Japan’s total R&D expenditures declined for the second year in a row in fiscal 2010 (April 1, 2009–March 31, 2010). The country’s total R&D expenditures reached ¥17,246.3 billion ($185.4 billion = ¥93 = $1), a decrease of 8.3%. Total R&D expenditures as a percentage of GDP declined 0.18% to 3.62% in fiscal 2010. The figures […]
Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina both plan to increase research spending. Serbia has announced Serbia 2020, a strategy designed to increase research funding from its current 0.3% of GDP to 2% within a decade. The strategy’s seven key areas, which will receive the majority of funding, are biomedicine, environmental protection, climate change, energy, agriculture, food […]
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 Academy of Sciences (CAS) announced its new research plan, Innovation 2020, in January. The plan continues to support basic research while also focusing on applied research. The budget for the plan, which is a component of the Knowledge Innovation Programme that CAS established in 1998, has not yet been announced, but it is […]
In January, the FDA announced a plan to improve the 510(k) program. The plan includes 25 actions the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) intends to take this year, including new guidance and improved staff training. Among the actions are the issuance of new guidance on 510(k) modifications by June 15. The plan […]
Endowments at 850 US colleges, universities and affiliated foundations that participated in a 2010 study of endowments gained 11.9% for the year ending June 30, 2010, a significant improvement over the average loss of 18.7% reported in the previous year’s study. The average annual return over a three-year period was a decline of 4.2%. The […]
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