The UK is to back up a review of science and innovation policy by former science minister David Sainsbury with £1 billion over the next three years to boost business innovation and technology development.
China needs a better return on its fast-rising investments in R&D and higher education if it is to become an “innovation-oriented” economy by 2020, OECD.
The preliminary findings of an investigation into the innovation performance of Russia and Ukraine placed them 27th and 35th respectively out of 36 countries considered in the study.