It's not driven so much by science, but by the desire to develop new technologies.
Emissions should have a price and polluters should develop new technologies if they intend to stay in business.
And these investments will help businesses develop new technologies that vehicle makers can use to meet higher fuel efficiency standards.
In addition, BP has agreed to several initiatives with academia and regulators to develop new technologies related to deepwater drilling safety.
Earlier this month, the forward-thinkers over at DARPA announced plans to develop new technologies capable of identifying human life through walls.
If the optimists are right and peak oil is decades away, we have time to develop new technologies to harness alternative energies.
By then, engineers who develop new technologies will have come up with even faster networks and the cycle will start all over again.
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It meant that we put much more emphasis on math and science and how we could develop new technologies in our economy and innovation.
The case of Southern Denmark demonstrates that hospitals, universities, and municipal authorities can work together to develop new technologies that directly respond to the needs of elderly populations.
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First, we face a critical shortfall of skilled scientists and engineers who can develop new breakthrough technologies.
We do discover new mineral resources, we do develop new extraction technologies, which make larger amounts of mineral resources available to us.
So we've got to develop new energy technologies, new energy sources.
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If it's done right, our children will continue to be able to celebrate their birthdays with balloons, and grow up to develop critical new technologies that they'll need to prosper in the next century.
Equity, on the other hand, represents risk capital that can be used to innovate and develop new products and technologies.
Because it is mainly businesses that develop and spread new technologies, businesses also tend to face the first questions about how to use them.
The new Catapult centre in satellite applications is intended to provide businesses with "access to orbit test facilities, to develop and demonstrate new technologies".
So what we should always be focused on, as we develop and adopt new technologies into our own lives is simple: what are the trade offs?
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While the need for fresh, clean water creates enormous challenges, it also creates opportunities to develop and implement new technologies that can improve the efficacy and lower the cost of treating water.
By using its dominance to gain access to competing firms' intellectual property, Intel diminishes the incentive for companies to develop new PC chip technologies, thus harming competition and cementing its own dominance in the industry, the FTC argues.
The U.S. federal government should implement policies that create market incentives to develop and deploy new energy technologies, including policies that have the effect of creating a substantial price on carbon emissions, and sector-specific policies to overcome other market failures.
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This will allow government to use the expertise that the national labs have to develop new and more effective technologies, so that we can react not only to known threats, but also to proactively anticipate new ways by which terrorists could seek to board our aircraft.
The Colorado Association for Manufacturing and Technology (CAMT) is at the core of this exciting initiative, with the Departments of Energy and Commerce joining along with NASA. Through this collaboration, private sector partners are financing the development of an Aerospace and Clean Energy Park that will host new businesses interested in using NASA technologies and expertise to develop new commercial products and services.
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We can use our time on the moon to develop and test new approaches and technologies and systems that will allow us to function in other, more challenging, environments.
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The president said the plan would encourage private companies to develop lighter wheelchairs, and new technologies which could help people with visual impairments and people who can't use their hands to operate computers.
"This provision severely devalues all underlying patent rights and could seriously undermine the incentive to develop novel new forms of medicines and other technologies, " says BIO chief Jim Greenwood.
But as new sequencing and information technologies develop, and the cost and speed of large-scale projects fall, more such international plant initiatives may well find their way on to the menu.
"If industry had to wait for government employees to be available to do the testing" and to develop enough technical knowledge to assess new aviation technologies, "we would just never get any products certified, " Goglia said.
He said the new centre will help researchers develop awareness about how surveillance technologies are used and the consequences of that use.
We will win the race to the top if we can develop the new high value products and services and the new green technologies that the rising numbers of hard-working families across our globe will want to buy.
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