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The spending of the top 1,000 R&D spenders rose by more than $20 billion in 2005. But spending alone can’t buy effective innovation, global study.

The largest international science project since the Space Station has finally got the go-ahead after ten years of discussions.

The European Union has unveiled a new way of funding R&D that allows it for the first time to pool public and private resources.

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.

Faciulitating and accelerating communications between scientists, academics and assorted researchers was one of the original factors behind the creation and development of the Internet.

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.

The German Research Foundation has opened an office in India, and is to introduce a new collaborative programme with its Indian counterpart next year.