Tag: R&D
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Brexit Is Quietly Strangling Science
Illustration: Jack Sachs By Simon Parkin A Nobel Prize winning physicist considers taking his research elsewhere, while applications from foreign researchers have plummeted. For many years Andre Geim was best known for designing an experiment that looked more like a parlor trick than a serious piece of scientific research. One Friday evening, in a moment…
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It’s sunnier on the Canadian innovation front
A bright spot has emerged amid the persistent gloom over Canada’s supposed decline in research and innovation performance. Traditional innovation indicators such as corporate research and development spending only provide information on inputs to innovation, not outputs. Against a backdrop of falling corporate investment in R&D, it seems Canadian inventiveness has taken a turn for…
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Innovation is not high-tech expensive equipaments
University of Florida Innovation vs. the ants When cutting-edge research labs get old, they face a new kind of challenge: Upkeep is expensive, and it’s not sexy. Put expensive high-tech scientific equipment in a former citrus packing house more than 60 years old, throw in an overworked air conditioner, a corroding foundation, and the sticky…
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Huawei invests $6m in innovation centre R&D in Nigeria
INNOVATION comes with a cost. That is apparently what ICT company, Huawei would want to be remembered for as it recently invested over six million dollars to establish an innovation and experience centre in Lagos, Nigeria. The company said the investment reflects the huge research and design, R&D budget the company sets aside to be…