The Sunshot initiative and other key technology innovation programs like the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy (ARPA-E), embody the kind of smart innovation policy that holds the promise of fundamentally transforming the economy and ushering in a new era of U.S. technology leadership.
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His offspring, like the Pacific Research Institute in San Francisco, hold symposia and such in occasionally enticing locales.
"There is no other research-led consortium like the Smarter Energy Research Institute in our market and we believe that by bringing advanced research closer to areas of high industry importance, we can compress the time from research to implementation and business value, " commented Rob Maathuis, Director of Asset Management at Alliander.
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For example, business groups like the National Association of Manufacturers and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce would like to see the research and experimentation credit, also expired, reinstated and made permanent.
In recent months, the business community has scored a few major victories, chief among them a temporary extension of the Bush-era tax cuts and several other tax provisions, like renewal of the research and development tax credit.
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Government agencies like the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority are attempting to fill gaps that are left by the drug industry and the shortcomings of financial markets.
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If Bittman had any desire to learn about the subject, he might have sought out a source like the 2010 National Research Council report on genetic engineering applied to agriculture.
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Cell phones that take pictures and crude video are no longer shocking, nor are handheld e-mail and computing devices like the BlackBerry from Research in Motion (nasdaq: RIMM - news - people ).
It appears that some things in the active versus passive debate were so obviously missing like having all of the important research in one spot that it is not surprising that two individual writers would have roughly the same outline for a book at the same time!
And we understood that if we're investing in things like a Hoover Dam or DARPA -- the research and development arm of our military that ended up producing things like the Internet or GPS -- that that, in fact, would be good for everybody.
In the next two months, dozens of more vulnerabilities will likely be revealed at security research conferences like the HOPE conference in New York and the Black Hat and Defcon conferences in Las Vegas.
There are other factors he thinks we should be worried about, like the decline in agricultural research.
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In this case, the big change is the emergence of smart phones, like the Apple iPhone, Research In Motion Blackberry and Google Android.
In a debate on 21 October 2010, Lord Ryder of Wensum said that the restrictions prevent organisations like the Institute of Cancer Research, of which he is chairman, from attracting top talent.
Many of the firms in attendance Tuesday favor some of the ideas he espouses, like a permanent extension of the federal research and development credit, which Congress allowed to lapse in December.
Like much of the previous research on coffee, the study was based on survey data -- in this case, a single questionnaire distributed in the mid-1990s -- that may provide an incomplete picture of the participants' overall health and lifestyle.
Allowing companies like Myriad to patent human genes or parts of human genes will slow down or cripple lifesaving medical research like in the battle against breast cancer, he said.
Indeed, the latest bout of UN and NGO research does look more like the kinds of reports businesspeople and business writers have been used to seeing from consultancies for years, right down to the color scheme on the infographics.
No one predicts the imminent demise of the PC, but some analysts are expecting growth to gradually taper off in places like the U.S. According to market research firm IDC, the U.S. market for packaged software will barely eke out double-digit annual gains over the next five years.
Yes, I want to reduce our deficit by cutting spending that we don't need, but also by asking the wealthy to do a little bit more so that we can invest in things like research and technology that are the key to a 21st-century economy.
We like this one from the Leichtman Research Group because it addresses the topic of in-home HD as a whole.
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Archaeologists, working at fantastic research institutions like the Museo del Oro in Bogota, are fighting against a rising tide of looting.
Public attention is finally being drawn to the fact that this research, (like everything else in the financial world), is often tainted by undisclosed financial interests.
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What he does not believe is helpful is making cuts in areas of investment that actually help the economy grow like research and development or education.
And engineers are just piling on these features, but it doesn't seem like the engineers and the market research people are having the same dialogue and same conversation.
Despite the deluge of new e-readers debuted at CES like the Que, the Skiff and countless others, Forrester Research predicts that only 6 million of the devices will sell in 2010.
Ya know, Microsoft Research is like the uber cool kids at Microsoft that are always doing things but all the people we know at Microsoft rarely have any idea what they're up to.
Like the folkloric John Henry and the steam engine, the contest drew machine learning experts from leading academic and private research firms and the attention of publications like The New York Times and Forbes.
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What he has been willing to do is make clear that if we take a balanced approach, we can enact spending cuts in our discretionary non-defense budget that are serious, but allow us to continue to invest in key areas of the economy like education and research, and development and innovation, and clean energy technology.
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