Naturally, advocates of greater access to essential medicines say that more compulsory licences would be good, and dismiss talk that research and development would suffer.

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Other strategies are more what you'd expect from any good business: more research and development, a simpler experience and a stronger push into developing markets like Brazil and China.

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The research was possible only because Brazil has good data on human development and on deforestation, which these days is measured by satellites.

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Because little research, and even less development, has happened since, the pipeline of good ideas is getting steadily emptier.

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Draack thinks Nokia has a good opportunity to build market share with its new partner and of course save costs in research and development when the two eventually bring a phone to market (most likely at some point next year).

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"This situation is a good example of why traditional accounting methods aren't an accurate way to determine value for research and development, " IV says in a statement.

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Social media is used in marketing, market research, communications, support, product development, user testing, talent recruiting and a good deal more.

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Governments may be good at certain things that advance technology, such as the peer-reviewed funding of basic research and pre-commercial development (including demonstrations of proof-of-concept), but they are rarely leaders in technological innovation.

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