Maker Faire and the R & D Rise in the South

The majority of the world’s research and development (R & D) in science and technology is now shifting to the global South. Powerhouses like China boast vast numbers of published papers in peer-reviewed ...

Obama's 2009 stimulus package to grant $16 billion in R&D funding

16 January 2009. The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has estimated that, of the $850 billion economic stimulus package drafted by the incoming Congress and Obama administration, nearly two...

Microsoft builds new Beijing R&D center, plans to double research staff

" Microsoft will spend US$280 million on a Beijing research and development center and double its full-time R&D staff in China to 3,000 over the next few years, the Wall Street Journal reported. Microsoft China's chairman, Zhang Ya-Qin, said during the center's...

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