Michael Kenward

The UK Government's budget preview was an excuse to flood the place with a torrent of papers on science, engineering and technology.

The OECD's "Science, Technology and Industry Outlook" for 2006 predicts that China will become world’s second highest investor in R&D by the end of the year. Europe, meanwhile, gets left behind in its "R&D intensity".

With different regimes for tax incentives for R&D across the EU, it can be hard to forge the country-to-country links that they like to encourage in the Framework Programme. Some new notes from Brussels set out to make life easier in the future.

The Chinese Academy of Sciences continues to offer intriguing, almost poetic, glimpses of the country's R&D scene.

After a week when the media were full of ideas for developing safer nanotechnology, one country leaps into the vanguard with a programme to develop weapons based on nanotechnology.

BAE Systems has handed out an internal innovation prize that everyone might appreciate.

Never let it be said that China has abandoned its old ways. Socialism lives.

Booz Allen Hamilton’s second annual global innovation survey promises to continue last year's debate on the link between R&D spending and corporate performance.

QinetiQ is leading a new consortium from industry, academia and the "UK defence supply chain" for MEMs Applications for Defence.

This time it is a major drugs company that is setting up its fume cupboards in China.