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Proposals to encourage the commercial exploitation of scientific research in Britain were expected to be given high priority in a government white paper due to be published this week.
A group of senior palaeontologists is proposing thathominid fossils should not be moved from their country of origin without "compelling" scientific reasons.
Despite Japan's severe economic situation, spending on industrial research and development increased by a record amount in the fiscal year 1997, according to figures released last week.
Plans by France's science minister for sweeping reforms of the country's research system suffered a serious setback last week when all senior adminsitrators in his own research department resigned.
The ‘shadow’ science minister in Britain's opposition Conservative party has expressed regret for cuts that were made to the funding of science whilst the Conservatives were in power.
Brazil's Ministry of Science and Technology could be merged with the larger Ministry of Education when the second term of President Fernando Henrique Cardoso begins next year.
The US company Monsanto is considering delaying the introduction of its controversial germination control technology — tagged by critics as ‘terminator’ technology.
Germany's new left-leaning coalition government may be a stumbling block to timely approval of new laws governing biotechnology patents, according to a German official.