China seeks more foreign research
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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao appealed to foreign companies Thursday to bring more research and development his nation, promising to protect their intellectual property amid worries of rampant piracy.
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By Carol Cain, Detroit Free Press  Sep. 18--With so many big companies looking to China to grow their businesses, it's natural that small firms would want a piece of the pie.   David Hemmings has made it his job to at least supply them with the ingredients.
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India wants more foreign investment to match the growth of its giant neighbor. But the democratic nation has to consider something China doesn't: voters
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday pressed China to improve human rights and take on greater international responsibilities as its global influence grows.
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(InfoWorld) - China now spends more on research and development than Japan, but still only invests a little over a third as much as the U.S., according to the OECD. Although China's economy is growing at between 9 percent and 10 percent a year, its R&D spending is growing even faster, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development said Monday. OECD member countries need to stimulate innovation in new ways, and make their research processes more efficient if they are to compete, the organization warned. U.S. R&D spending this year will total $338 billion, compared to China's $136 billion and Japan's $129 billion, according to OECD estimates. The 15 original member states of the European Union will spend $233 billion on R&D this year, the OECD said, assuming that the countries' spending continues to grow at the same rates as between 2000 and 2004. The OECD's figures, drawn from its report "The Science, Technology and Industry Outlook 2006," show that 926,000 researchers are involved in China's R&D efforts, an increase of 77 percent between 1995 and 2004, while in the U.S. the figure is just over 1.3 million: China has two-thirds the number of researchers for only one-third the spending. Although the OECD compares figures for national R&D spending, a growing proportion of that investment comes from other countries, thanks to multinational companies. More than 16 percent of business-funded R&D in the OECD was performed by foreign affiliates in 2004, the organization said, up from 12 percent in 1993. The share of inward R&D funding exceeded 40 percent in five countries: Australia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Ireland, and the U.K. While countries compete with one another to attract this inward R&D investment, they are also competing for researchers, and the political issue of human resources is taking on greater urgency, the OECD said. The U.S. now has 9.3 researchers per 1,000 in the labor force, compared to 10.3 in Japan and only 5.8 in the 25 member states of the European Union. Replacing those researchers, or increasing their numbers, will get harder: Fewer students are graduating in science and technology subjects in Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, South Korea, and the U.S., the OECD found, and in the U.S. the number of doctoral students enrolling is also falling. The European Union now produces more doctoral graduates in science and technology than the U.S. -- but it is the U.S. that offers them the most jobs: half of the 46,716 post-doctoral positions open in 2003 went to foreign graduates, the OECD noted. The OECD has 30 members states "sharing a commitment to democratic government and the market economy." The members include Australia, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, South Korea, Turkey, the U.S. and 18 European countries including France, Germany, Italy and the U.K. The OECD Web site offers further details of the report.ADVERTISEMENTNEW IT SERVICES FROM IBM: EASIER TO BUY AND IMPLEMENTDiscover a simpler, more cost-effective way to get the solutions your company needs to grow more flexible and efficient.
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WASHINGTON -- US officials asked their Chinese counterparts to increase oversight of food and drug exports yesterday as the list of potentially deadly products reaching US shores kept growing.
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A day earlier, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao urged the two neighours to accelerate studies on establishing a free trade area (FTA). on Wednesday, adding that Beijing was committed to an active
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China and 15 other countries joined NASA officials this week to consider how they might cooperate with U.S. plans for human exploration of the moon and Mars.
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XIANGHE, China  - China will push its banks to forge deeper into overseas markets for acquisitions and a global profile, a top bank regulator said on Sunday.
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By Diao Ying  The Chinese Government is telling enterprises to prepare to meet the latest European Union regulations on chemical substances, another of many international standards that stifles China's manufacturing-heavy foreign trade.
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Foreign companies often do not understand Chinaâs Internet market, which is geared primarily to entertainment and mobile phones.
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China called on U.S. lawmakers on Thursday to address issues such as the valuation of the yuan through a dialogue of equals instead of trying to put pressure on Beijing.
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Search giant tries to make more headway in China, where it faces a local rival.
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China will spend more to research global warming but lacks the money and technology to significantly reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that are worsening the problem, a government official said Tuesday.
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In recent years, hundreds of multinational companies have set up research laboratories in China.
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A new state fund will seek higher returns abroad on China's $1 trillion in currency reserves.
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China will strengthen ties with foreign partners to revitalize the economy in Northeast China and to further co-operation in Northeast Asia, a senior official said.