USA proposes 2015 R&D budget of $135.4 billion
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your bank account. The easy bit is for the researchers to do the research, but the problem is overcoming the bureaucratic landscape in order to create this partnership,” he said. Kinaret agrees, “The main challenge is to improve collaboration between different actors, academic and corporate. There are different traditions in, say, the chemicals industry from electronics companies.” Divided between so many countries and spread over a decade, an investment of a billion euros is less significant than it may seem. The US technology giant IBM, which has invested heavily in graphene, alone has an annual research
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he President’s fiscal year 2015 Budget proposes $135.4 billion for federal research and development (R&D) activities, an increase of $1.7 billion or 1.2% over FY 2014 enacted levels. “By continuing the Administration’s record of steady support for research and development across the full spectrum of scientific and technological domains— including such diverse priorities as biomedicine, advanced manufacturing, climate science, cybersecurity, natural resource management, space exploration, and national security—the Budget ensures that the United States will be an incubator of innovation and economic growth for many years to come,” said John P. Holdren, President Obama’s science and technology advisor and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. The Budget calls for $65.9 billion for non-defense R&D, up 0.7% or $477 million from the 2014 enacted level, and $69.5 billion for defense R&D, up $1.2 billion or 1.7% from the 2014 enacted level. Basic and applied research investments total $64.7 billion, up $251 million or 0.4% from 2014. Investments in development total $68.0 billion, an increase of 2.3% over 2014.
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In addition, the President’s Budget proposes a separate, fully-paid-for $56 billion Opportunity, Growth, and Security Initiative that includes $5.3 billion for R&D endeavors. Some highlights of the 2015 Budget include: $12.3 billion for R&D at the Department of Energy (DOE), to support such priorities as clean energy and advanced manufacturing, energy security, carbon pollution reduction and climate change mitigation, and modernization of the US nuclear weapons stockpile and infrastructure—including $5.1 billion for DOE’s Office of Science. $7.3 billion for the National Science Foundation (NSF), the primary source of support for academic research in most non-biomedical disciplines, integrating fundamental research and education across a broad spectrum of science and engineering domains. $680 million for the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) intramural laboratories in the Department of Commerce, to support research that promotes US innovation and industrial competitiveness by advancing
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budget of USD $6 billion. Samsung, another key player in graphene, spends more than $10 billion a year on research and develop
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