3M Co. has just announced plans to increase spending on research and development, product lines, and acquisitions in 2010 in an effort to emerge from the recession further ahead of weaker competitors.
3M spent approximately $1.2 billion on R&D in 2009, and plans to spend as much as $100 billion in the coming year to [...]
Filed under: News on December 29th, 2009 @ 8:24 am
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BusinessWeek makes a compelling argument for a return to the heyday of large scale scientific research funded by a combination of public and private funds as a necessary antidote for our struggling economy. This “pure” research can lead to the kind of breakthroughs and innovations that can create new industries and improve old ones, which [...]
Filed under: Business, News, Technology on September 3rd, 2009 @ 12:41 pm
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‘Younger than Moses: Idle Worship’ is an art exhibit featuring 22 artists in New York.
As part of the European Project FP7 research called “Integrated System for Transport Infastructures Surveillance and Monitoring by Electromagnetic Sensing,” a team of researchers had been gathered from the countries of Israel, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Romania.