English language training the key to research & development success
Posted By Webmaster on July 27, 2010
An exciting initiative to provide additional assistance towards research and development (R&D) amounting to billions of baht a year in both the private and public sectors has recently been announced.
The National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA) will increase Thailand’s R & D budget to 1 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) – in line with the level of developed countries – from the existing 0.2 percent.
Moreover, NSTDA plans to lift the budget for research activities in the private sector to 50 percent of total R&D expenditure over the coming years, as against 40 percent at present.
Financial assistance to organizations conducting approved research projects comes largely in the form of tax holidays, soft loans and the use of NSTDA’s own research facilities and laboratories at cost.
The main focus of NSTDA’s agenda will be food and agriculture, energy and the environment, health and medicine, social contributions and specialty industries. In this last category, material development, biotechnology, electronics and nanotechnology will be of top priority.
It naturally follows that if the particular research project of any organization is to be of international standing, then the research paper needs to be written in English as well as in the Thai language.
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English Language Vocabulary
initiative (noun): a new move to achieve progress
private sector (adjective + noun): non-government companies and organisations
public sector (adjective + noun): government organisations
gross domestic product (adjective + adjective + noun): the measure of a country’s overall economic output
tax holiday (noun + noun): a temporary reduction or elimination of tax
soft loan (adjective + noun): a loan with a below market rate of interest and / or with a long repayment term
at cost (preposition + verb): at cost price; without profit to the seller.
biotechnology (noun): the exploitation of biological processes for industrial and other purposes
nanotechnology (noun): the study of the controlling of matter on an atomic or molecular scale
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