R&D policy

India has halted the overseas flow of graduates from the Indian Institutes of Technology, with most now preferring to establish their careers at home, according to a survey.

The European Commission has told Hungary to change tax laws which limit R&D tax exemptions to research carried out in the country.

Science Foundation Ireland has appointed Dr Paul Dodd as Head of Industry-Research Development.

Researchers at top US universities have gone on the offensive against NIH cuts, saying they will wipe out a generation of junior scientists.

It may be a cheap imitation of the original vision, but Europe’s answer to MIT goes ahead. Now wait for the wrangling on where to site it.

Speed – and staying close to the customer – is the key to commercialising new materials for electronics. But you can’t do this in Europe, says Thomas Geelhaar, head of R&D at Merck Chemicals.

A Swedish report into levels of research funding for universities since the mid 1990s shows resources increased up to 2002 and then stagnated.

The European Commission is planning legislation to make it easier to set up collaborative laboratories in the European Union.

The first full list of finalists from Brussels’ new research agency has plenty of surprises for research establishments.