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Value of Puerto Rico's investment in research and development increases

Submitted on 26 November 2014 - 8:06pm

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Press Release Institute of Statistics of Puerto Rico

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The Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics revealed the results of its 2012-2013 Science and Technology Survey: Research and Development (Encuesta sobre Ciencia y Tecnología 2012-13: Investigación y Desarrollo), the second time a survey using internationally-recognized definitions and methodology is done in the country.

 

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UPR part of key collaboration for the fight against HIV

Submitted on 10 September 2014 - 1:45pm

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The University of Puerto Rico will be a key partner in a collaboration to develop a vaccine against HIV, together with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and CDI Labs, and with the support of the Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research Trust, the Puerto Rico Industrial Development Company and the National Insitute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

 

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Job offer: R & D Lab Technician-Neogen

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Former Science Trust expert calls for overhaul of R&D approach

Submitted on 13 December 2012 - 2:50pm

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Caribbean Business

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If Puerto Rico is going to have any chance of creating a biotechnology sector that creates quality research and independent-minded scientists for the island's biotech apparatus, the approach to research being conducted at the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) must be revamped. That is where a former trustee of the Science, Technology & Research Trust, Mariano García-Blanco, is saying we have to eliminate the political ebb and flow that propitiates lack of continuity and affects the quality of research at the university.

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Survey of Science & Technology: Assessing the R&D ecosystem in Puerto Rico

Submitted by Jacqueline Flores Otero and Mónica Ivelisse Feliú-Mójer on 1 August 2011 - 12:00am

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Our society is at the cusp of a scientific revolution. The generation and application of knowledge and innovation have fundamentally changed the way we live and are a driving force in the global economy. For that reason many countries around the world, including Puerto Rico, are making a push to establish knowledge-based economies.

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