China is investing unprecedented amounts in research and development while changing the way science is practised
By
The Guardian - Jan. 24, 2014
I was chatting with a friend and collaborator based in Germany
recently about the completion of a new building that his university was
constructing, dedicated to biomedical imaging sciences. I was sharing my
own exhilaration about the serious investment that our government,
regional agencies and the EU were making in graphene research at the University of Manchester.
At some point in our conversation it became apparent that as
extraordinary as the investments in our institutions were, they did not
even come close to what we had both experienced from recent trips in China.
Our
conclusion was that "for each floor refurbishment in Europe, a new
building is built is China, and for each new building in Europe, a new
campus is built in China …"
The magnitude of R&D investment in
China is unprecedented and well-documented. Nanoscience is a
strategically important field in the eyes of Chinese policymakers: a poster-child of new-age, high-tech China. The volume of scientific data generated and published by Chinese laboratories in all areas of nanotechnology has been increasing exponentially.
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