Tag: China
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Dutch-Chinese Project to Simulate Shipping Port Traffic
Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in the Netherlands and Jiao Tong University in Shanghai, China will develop a traffic model for shipping in congested port areas, which they hope will provide a better understanding of the ports’ capacity and improve safety. The project is part of a program by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific…
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Asian Patents Jump in 2010, Decline in U.S., Mixed in Europe
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) reports today that the number of patent filings under WIPO’s Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) increased in 2010, with the largest percentage gains recorded in Asia. Provisional data for 2010 indicate that 162,900 international patent applications were filed in 2010 compared to the 155,398 applications filed in 2009, an increase…
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Research Collaboration Developing More Robust Rice
A partnership between the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) is developing new varieties of rice designed to grow under tough conditions by the poorest farmers. The early results of the project are reported in the January issue of the magazine Rice Today, published by IRRI. Green Super Rice…
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More International Collaboration Found in Nanotech Research
Investigators at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta and Florida International University (FIU) in Miami reveal how research in nanotechnology has increasingly become a multi-national enterprise, despite having some 60 countries now funding nanotech initiatives within their borders. Phillip Shapira of Georgia Tech and Jue Wang of FIU found nearly a quarter of all published…
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GE Plans $500 Million R&D Investment in China
General Electric Company plans to invest another $500 million in China for research and development, including regional R&D hubs to serve the Chinese market. GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt announced the investment today, as part of a $2 billion plan that includes joint ventures in technology, energy, financial services, and transportation. Immelt (pictured left)…
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Chinese Develop New Waterproof Cotton Fabric
Scientists with the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics and the Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing have developed a waterproof cotton fabric that continues to repel water after 250 commercial launderings. The new fabric, say the researchers, looks almost identical to ordinary cotton, is both impermeable and breathable, and retains its super-hydrophobic…
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Ozone Technology to be Tested in Soil Cleanup Demo
Civil and environmental engineering professor Andy Hong at University of Utah in Salt Lake City has partnered with Chinese environmental cleanup company Honde LLC to use Hong’s method of heightened ozonation treatment (HOT) to clean metals and other contaminants from polluted soil along the shores of Lake Taihu near Wuxi, China. Hong’s HOT technology infuses…
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Novo Nordisk to Double China R&D Staff
Novo Nordisk, a Danish pharmaceutical company, said today it will expand its research and development staff in Beijing, China from 100 to 200 employees by 2015. The additional staff will initially work on new research involving diabetes. The company says its future research scope in China will be broadened to include pharmacological studies other than…
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Chinese Patents, R&D Funds Climb in 2010
The Xinhua news agency reports that the number of patents and research and development funding by China’s largest companies have climbed so far in 2010, according to data released by the China Enterprise Confederation (CEC). The CEC says China’s top 500 companies held 169,000 patents in 2010, up 13.3 percent from last year. Some 41…