Brazil Invests in Research and Development and Scientific Cooperation

An article in Times Higher Education discusses Brazil's recent investments in research and development and willingness to collaborate internationally. According the article, "Brazil invested $24.9 billion (£15.6 billion) in research and development in 2010. Although cuts to the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation budget last year may dent this figure slightly, it will still be from a base three times bigger than in 2002. Adjusting for the purchasing power of each currency, Brazil now spends more on R&D than Canada or Italy. The boom in spending has seen a commensurate rise in scientific output. The number of papers by Brazilian authors in the Thomson Reuters Science Citation Index doubled between 1997 and 2007, making the country the 13th-largest producer of science in the world."

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www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=422083&c=2.