Regulators and trade groups are joining the effort to reform research too.
Alison Payne, Reform Scotland's Research Director, said it was a "question of equality".
The group also plans to focus on issues including education reform and funding for scientific research.
The group also plans to focus on issues such as education reform and funding for scientific research.
The Patten Report on police reform in Northern Ireland recommended research to find an acceptable, effective and less potentially lethal alternative to plastic bullets.
Other potential steps toward 4% include smarter immigration policy, freer trade, more encouragement to entrepreneurship and more domestic energy development, and, for the longer term, serious education reform and substantially more basic research.
It will provide an opportunity for policy-makers to obtain directly from social scientists information on the results of their research on the reform of welfare systems in Europe and elsewhere in order to make them respond to social security needs, particularly in Europe.
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His research interests include economic reform in China, U.S. fiscal and monetary policy, and constitutional political economy.
Now, Fazzino and HP's six-person government affairs outpost in Washington hope that momentum on innovation will carry along two other top priorities: patent reform and an extension of the research and development tax credit.
Grace-Marie Turner is president of the Galen Institute, a non-profit research organization focusing on health reform.
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"There may be a very different strategy coming out of the White House on health care reform, " Joan Woodward, Washington research analyst with Goldman Sachs, told CNNfn's Market Call.
The main complaint was not the U.S. and European economies, but about taxes and fees charged by local governments, regional protectionism and tight credit, said Fan Gang, director of the National Economics Research Institute at the China Reform Foundation, which compiled the data.
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.
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Zhang Hanya, director of the Investment Research Institution with the National Development and Reform Commission, said compared with the past two years, the delivery of central government funding had significantly improved.
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Tech firms like Microsoft, Apple and Research in Motion love the idea of patent reform.
It is arguable that we might not have had as much support for abortion reform, or addiction treatment, or HIV-AIDS research, or marriage equality, without them.
Grace-Marie Turner is president of the Galen Institute, a nonprofit research organization focusing on patient-centered solutions to health reform.
Grace-Marie Turner is president of the Galen Institute, a non-profit research organization focusing on free-market ideas for health reform.
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The Treasury calculates that getting rid of all existing allowances would broaden the tax base enough to allow the rate to be cut to 27% though Mr Hubbard is sceptical that such a wholesale reform would be politically feasible, as some allowances, such as the research tax credit, are too popular with business.
While Defense Secretary Robert Gates is busy with a reform plan that will cut procurement costs, slash spending on missile defense research (just as the North Koreans launch another missile), and gut other weapons systems, it is unclear how much this will save, and most of those savings are earmarked for spending on veterans' health care.
Welfare reform has had a "shocking" impact on lone parents, according to research published by the Poverty Alliance.
But short of such a radical scenario, pricing reform would not kill off innovation, according to Sanford Bernstein, a financial-research firm.
And comprehensive energy reform came up as a way of talking about and dealing with our investments in research and development and in jobs for the future.
In what could be another example that health care reform is actually hitting the targets intended by the controversial Affordable Care Act, government research shows that in the 15 states that publically post their requests for premium rate increases, double digit rate increases have plummeted since passage of Obamacare.
One of the most powerful findings of this research is that a compelling personal story helps tremendously to make the health care reform law real, break down resistance, tap into anger about how things were under the old system, provide hope for how health care reform can make it better, and help voters retain knowledge of key provisions.
Other academic and research bodies complain of increasingly intrusive government scrutiny, particularly of any activity related to political reform.
In other areas, namely pension reform and education, they are spending money to support initiatives that they believe are based on sound research.
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The BMA has drawn up proposals to reform the way doctors are trained at medical school, so that they are exposed to teaching and research opportunities earlier.
Our research suggests that improving access to capital, creating new pathways for immigrant entrepreneurs, and regulatory reform will help address these barriers.
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