O ver 5000 representatives of science, business and government gathered in the industrial town of Essen in Northern Germany last week to witness the official launch of the European research budget Framework Programme 5 (FP5), which will run through 2002.
And with the Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi also urging private industry to put more funding into research during the launch of the new national research plan earlier this year, scientists fear basic research may be reduced still further.
Last week, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack gave a speech on the role of research at the USDA at the launch of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), the research arm of that agency formerly referred to as the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES).
But in 2007, after attending the launch of the most compelling research I have read into lifestyle choices and cancer, I decided to temper my intake of red meat.
But, in a speech at the launch of a research project on the politics of judicial independence at the University College London (UCL) constitution unit last night, Lord Phillips said that independence was threatened by the court's funding arrangements.
In the decades known for the Vietnam War and the launch of Sputnik, research at Georgia Tech and the Georgia Tech Research Institute had become so tied with NASA and the Department of Defense that local industrial development had been largely forgotten.
The Turnbull government launched a review of the research and development tax concession as part of its innovation package in late 2015.
When scouring through university websites in search of their latest developments and projects for the launch of our new research round-up, Research in brief (RIBS), it became increasingly apparent this information was not always easily accessible – to those outside the realm of academia at least.
The recent success of several space weather-related missions and research programs and the launch of the International Heliophysical Year (IHY) research and education programs make this an ideal time to inform the public about the importance and relevance of space weather to our understanding of heliophysical science.
This paper traces these approaches, identifies the principles that drove them, and discusses their role in shaping policy for publicly funded health research, up to the recent launch of a new research strategy by the Department of Health.
