The government is to give the UK’s research councils an extra £400 million for new projects and £300 million to improve the infrastructure in Britain’s universities. The Wellcome...
The Ministry of Defence funds two research organizations: the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA) and the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE). The review calls on DERA, which carries out non-...
Irish scientists have been worried for some time about an apparent lack of direction in the government’s research policy, especially because of a fiasco with this year’s budget which resul...
The Foresight programme was launched in 1994 to improve wealth creation and the quality of life in the UK. It has been led by 16 panels of business executives, scientists and government officials, who...
The sum is substantial – domestic spending on basic research is about IR£2m each year; the country also receives IR£20m from the EU. “If the money is not released very soon, ther...
The commission hopes that by making capital accessible to companies, Europe can help reduce the high level of unemployment affecting the continent. Unlike the US, where a large number of venture capit...
The European Science Foundation is an association of 62 major national funding agencies devoted to scientific research in 21 countries. The ESF assists its member organizations in two main ways: by br...
The Implications of the Dearing Report for the Structure and Funding of University Research calls for the government to immediately invest £410 – £430 million in the UK’s researc...
The report, which analyses data ranging from global trends in R&D expenditure to patterns of research mobility, was published by the European Commission last month. It aims to inform and guide fut...
“Physicists are doing very, very well, ” says Richard Brook, sitting in the chief executive’s office at the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. “We put more of ...