Contestability and contested stability: life and times of CSIRO's New Zealand cousins, the Crown Research Institutes.
SUMMARY The progress of the Crown Research Institutes (CRIs) since their formation in 1992 from the dismantling of the centralised Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR) is charted. Particular attention is paid to the funding environment, characterised by the concept of contestability, in which the CRIs...

Public investment in research pays major economic dividends.
Byline: Michael F. Collins COLUMN: AS I SEE IT Often overlooked and seldom associated with economic development, the biomedical research sector is a national treasure. Amid the current climate and with animated public debate focused on government bailouts of troubled companies and whole...

Burnham Announces Assay Development and License Agreement with Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development, L.L.C.
LA JOLLA, Calif., Jan. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) has signed an assay development and license agreement with Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and Development, L.L.C. (J&JPRD). The agreement is Burnham's first broad-based partnership with a large pharmaceutical company. Under this multi-year agreement,...

Anticipated Policy Changes For Embryonic Stem Cell Research: Funding Under The Obama Administration.
Soon after the November 2008 election, then-President-elect Obama signaled his intention to issue executive orders to repeal decisions made by the Bush administration on diverse policies, including the limitations imposed on embryonic stem cell research. Less than a week after Election Day, John Podesta, transition chief for the Obama...

Dutch Job-Board for Academia Spread its Wings in 38 Countries.
UTRECHT, The Netherlands, January 7 /PRNewswire/ -- AcademicTransfer, the Dutch niche job-board for Academia, has taken over the American job-board Career.edu. AcademicTransfer will now be a job board for the international research and academic community in 38 countries. AcademicTransfer AcademicTransfer is an international job-board for...

Frost & Sullivan Recognizes Horphag's Pioneering R&D Efforts in Health Ingredients.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Feb. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Based on its recent analysis of the North American health ingredients market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Horphag Research Ltd. with the 2008 North American Frost & Sullivan Excellence in Research of the Year Award. The award acknowledges the company's extensive research projects...

Large R&D Initiatives Boost Technological Development in the Flexible Electronics Market.
LONDON, Jan. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Flexible electronics is set to bring about revolutionary changes in the design and conceptualization of electronics devices in the consumer, medical, and military sectors. The emerging field has demonstrated huge implications in terms of cost reductions owing to printed manufacturing techniques being developed for...

Rady School's First Funded 'Lab to Market' Company, Polka, Provides Technology to Manage and Share Health Information.
Polka Delivers Next-Generation Applications for User-Empowered Healthcare Via Mobile and the Web SAN DIEGO, Feb. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- The Rady School of Management at the University of California, San Diego today announced that Polka is the first company created within the school's Lab to Market course to...

ClearedJobs.Net Supports Anonymous Cyber Behavior Survey.
Survey seeks to identify specific types of cyber behaviors performed by individuals engaged on the Internet FALLS CHURCH, Va., Feb. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- ClearedJobs.Net has announced today its support for a government sponsored survey being administered to understand the various types of activities people engage in while...

Fraunhofer USA Center for Molecular Biotechnology Receives Gates Foundation Grant for Avian Influenza Vaccine Development.
NEWARK, Del., Jan. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- The Center for Molecular Biology (CMB) has received an $8.7 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support continued development of an avian influenza vaccine that uses transient plant-based technology. CMB will develop vaccines against highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses...