They will leverage technology, but as a way to improve the efficacy of their residential programs.

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Marc Andreessen, Marc Benioff and Jim Breyer talked about using tech-driven metrics to improve philanthropic efficacy.

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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.

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The nanobiotech investment theme covers the nanoscale advances that will improve the accuracy and efficacy of target therapeutics, diagnostics, drug delivery, drug discovery and tissue engineering.

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Scientists returned to the laboratory, hoping to develop better delivery vehicles and to improve both the safety and efficacy of the treatments.

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The study will be called Improve It, short for Improved Reduction of Outcomes: Vytorin Efficacy International Trial.

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Right now, generic companies are competing primarily on cost, yet one can imagine that by bundling the appropriate companion technologies to their products (e.g. technologies that improve and document adherence), they might conceivably be in a position to make more aggressive efficacy claims, to demonstrate to stakeholders that they are delivering greater value, and ultimately command somewhat higher pricing, yet still below the cost of new, branded products.

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