Tag: statistics
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R&D Spending Creates 11,000+ Jobs in Indiana Since 1999
An analysis of Indiana’s 21st Century Research and Technology Fund estimates the fund created more than 11,000 jobs since it began in 1999, sparking $427 million in economic activity in the state. Ball State University’s Center for Business and Economic Research in Muncie, Indiana conducted the study. The Indiana General Assembly created the fund in…
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Fewer Venture Funds Raise More Capital in Q3 2010
Thomson Reuters, a business news and database publisher, and the National Venture Capital Association report today that U.S. venture capital (VC) companies raised nearly $3 billion in the third quarter of 2010, up from $2.1 billion in the second quarter of the year. However, the number of VC companies raising funds in the third quarter…
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U.S. Health Research Spending Level Flat in 2009
Spending in the U.S. on health research made gains in 2009, due mainly to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, but as a percentage of overall spending on health care, stayed at about the same level as 2008. These findings came in a report yesterday from an annual audit of health research spending by Research!America,…
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Venture Fund-Raising Remains Slow So Far in 2010
U.S. venture capital (VC) companies raised $9.2 billion for 103 funds during the first three quarters of 2010, according to Dow Jones LP Source, an industry database that tracks venture and private equity fund-raising. Through September 2010, that represents a slight increase from the $8.9 billion raised for 105 funds during the same period in…
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FDA, NIH Award Grant to Study Adaptive Clinical Trial Design
Researchers from academia and business aim to improve the process for testing therapies and medical devices by investigating a new type of clinical trial called adaptive clinical trials. This kind of clinical study makes adjustments to the trial using information accumulated as patients are enrolled, with the goal of improving clinical trials’ efficiency as a…
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Survey: University Startups, Products Keep Pace in 2009
The Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM), the association of institutional technology transfer professionals, released yesterday its 2009 licensing survey, showing the volume of startups and new products last year about the same as in 2008, but the number of new patents filed in the U.S. dropping. AUTM’s survey says personnel at universities, research institutes,…
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Global Semiconductor Sales Rise in August
The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) reports today that worldwide semiconductor sales in August 2010 rose 1.8 percent to $25.7 billion, from $25.2 billion in July. Sales rose in all regions, with chip sales in Japan registering the largest increase of 4.1 percent followed by the sales in the Americas that rose 2 percent. Compared to…
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Study: Wisconsin Benefits from Bioscience Industry
A study by Bioforward, an association of biotechnology companies in Wisconsin, shows a growing bioscience industry with high-paying jobs over the past few years, in contrast to other industries in the state. The analysis covers the period of 2004 through 2009. The bioscience industry, as defined by Bioforward, includes employers in four industry sub-sectors: agricultural…
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Industry’s 2009 R&D Spending Rises at Universities
The National Science Foundation Survey of Research and Development Expenditures at Universities and Colleges reports that private companies significantly increased their percentage of R&D spending on science and engineering at American universities in the government’s 2009 fiscal year. R&D spending at universities from all sources increased to $54.9 billion from 2008 to 2009, an increase…
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New York Life Sciences Landing More Venture, Government Funds
The New York Biotechnology Association (NYBA) in Stony Brook said today that in the first half of 2010, universities, companies and research organizations in New York State received $336.6 million in private and government investment. NYBA based its report on results from the quarterly PricewaterhouseCoopers Money Tree Report and data from the National Institutes of…
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