UK ‘overtakes Japan’ on Chinese collaboration

By Elizabeth Gibney. The UK has overtaken Japan to become China’s second most prolific research collaborator. Research published on 14 October shows that the UK is now only second to the US in terms of the number of joint research publications with China.
But the report, by the innovation charity Nesta in collaboration with Research Councils UK and the UK government, argues that the UK must become more ambitious in its strategy to work with the country, which now spends $163 billion (£102 billion) each year on research and development. Read more...