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...Happening , by Annie Ernaux, translated by Tanya Leslie, Fitzcarraldo, RRP£9.99, 96 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FTBooksCafe....
...Tanya Ronder’s surreal farce tackles the urgent issue of climate change through the story of one well-to-do family....
...In 2011, China surpassed Japan’s overall R&D spending....
...Felicity Burch, senior economist at EEF, the manufacturers’ association, stresses that growing R&D activity in the UK is “a key way of anchoring production here”....
...The manufacturer on Friday started building the first phase of its £250m expansion of its Wiltshire-based headquarters, which will double the size of its R&D centre....
...GSK’s R&D platform technologies....
...Perhaps the US tech darling’s executives should ask their R&D geeks for a device that provides them with a jolt every time they lag behind the market....
...Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Germany spend the most on R&D in the area....
...Overall EU R&D spending has remained at about 2 per cent of GDP in the past decade, a long way off the 3 per cent target the EU wants to achieve by 2020....
...“There has been significant R&D focus into developing new and improved graphene production methods.” ——————————————- Letter in response to this report: Graphene’s power is not just patents / From Mr Harry...
...Additional reporting by Andrea Felsted and Tanya Powley...
...Allied Minds estimates that the US federal government will fund $123bn of R&D activity this year, with $37bn of this to be spent on US academic research....
...Dyson, which employs about 4,500 across three sites in the UK and Asia, has submitted plans to its local council to create a new technology campus, with R&D laboratories split over four buildings....
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