Instrument Business Outlook

1. The bottom line.
The Bottom Line Data from recent industry financial reports. Dollar amounts in millions. Company Period Ended Sales Accelrys 3Q 31-Dec $19.6 Accelrys 4Q 30-Sep $20.4 ...
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2. Japan.
Japan: Japan continues to reform its R&D spending, which is estimated at $168 billion per year. However, critics contend the system still does not sufficiently ...
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3. Semiconductors.
Semiconductors: IC Insights forecasts R&D spending by the semiconductor industry (integrated device manufacturers, fabless semiconductor companies and pure-play wafer foundries) to rise 8% this year ...
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4. Europe.
Europe: According to Ernst & Young's European Investment Monitor, the number of foreign direct investment (FDI) projects in Europe rose 5% last year to 3,712.
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5. Germany.
Germany: From January to March, Germany's Federal Ministry for Education and Research conducted a survey of 645 biotechnology companies. Revenues for the 496 "dedicated" biotech ...
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6. Poland's Selvita Life Sciences Solutions.
Poland's Selvita Life Sciences Solutions was named an authorized partner of Starlims Technologies.
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7. In May, Starlims Technologies acquired Laboratory Expertise Center.
In May, Starlims Technologies acquired Laboratory Expertise Center and launched a unit to provide strategic informatics consulting services to its customers.
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8. Sales growth outpaces new hires in 2007.
The analytical and life science instrument industry has made impressive gains in productivity, as measured by sales per employee, in recent years due the greater ...
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9. Diverse approaches to workflows.
On a basic level, a workflow is a sequence of steps necessary to complete a designated task. In a laboratory, there are many workflows. For ...
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10. Agilent expands materials science business.
Santa Clara, CA 6/30/08--Agilent Technologies has acquired MTS Systems' Nano Instruments business unit. Financial terms were not disclosed. The Nano Instruments business unit provides nanoindentation ...
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