For four decades after World War II, the federal government made enormous investments in research universities, national laboratories, communications and micro-processing technologies, and the necessary infrastructure to support the development and commercialization of information technologies that have transformed the American workplace, created entire new industries, and made the American economy the most productive in the world.
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"The Critical Materials Institute will bring together the best and brightest research minds from universities, national laboratories and the private sector to find innovative technology solutions that will help us avoid a supply shortage that would threaten our clean energy industry as well as our security interests, " he said in a statement.
As in most research universities with medical colleges, the National Institutes of Health is the largest single contributor for Cornell as a whole, at 39 percent.
Ms Bailyn approvingly notes the recent decision by America's National Science Foundation, which funds a big chunk of the universities' basic research, to allow grant recipients to take a break.
Just last week, the Chronicle of Higher Education ran a story that referenced a report from the National Science Board showing that in all but seven states, funding for major public research universities has been cut.
Since taking office two years ago Mr Ritter has signed legislation requiring 20% of state energy to be produced from renewable sources by 2020, and has formed a research partnership between Colorado's universities and the Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory, west of Denver.
Davies said that there was "mounting evidence" of the economic benefit research programmes can have in terms of attracting multi-national companies, but conceded that Welsh universities, in this sense, had "been slow in making this happen".
Aside from universities that host willed-body programs, several nonprofit outfits, including the National Disease Research Interchange in Philadelphia and the Anatomy Gifts Registry in Hanover, Md.
Aside from universities that host willed-body programs, several nonprofit outfits, including the National Disease Research Interchange in Philadelphia and the Anatomy Gifts Registry in Hanover, Maryland, make body parts available to researchers.
National and sub-national government bodies, development agencies, teachers unions, the media, families, communities, universities and research centres must work together in order for the school system to fulfill its mission in the best possible way.
Undertake, in cooperation with universities and research institutes, policy research and sector studies for the reform or restructuring of national science, technology and innovation systems as part of the economic reform or structural adjustment programmes of Member States.
UNESCO: Vacancy : Senior Programme Specialist (24/5/2011) (SC 433 - (P5))
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