New research shows the gap between broadband take up in Wales and the UK has decreased from 10 percentage points to seven in just 12 months.
There remains a notable gap in research focused on decision-making approaches that advantage female leaders, research that could give rise to actionable insights for business leaders.
It is designed to bridge the gap between university research and full commercialisation.
CCAM, like the proposed Institutes, bridges the gap from basic research to product development and supports the skills needed for an advanced manufacturing workforce.
One example is Bridging the Gap, a research project we commissioned with the Monitor Group to help banks and microfinance institutions better understand the value of empowering their clients to make sound decisions through financial education.
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This pilot institute will bridge the gap between basic research and product development for additive manufacturing, provide shared assets to help companies, particularly small manufacturers, access cutting-edge capabilities and equipment, and create an environment to educate and train workers in advanced additive manufacturing skills.
Much of the report looks at the incomes of families, but research also shows a stark gender gap.
"When I was starting out, there wasn't that big a salary gap between business and research, " says Hennessy, 47.
We are jumping into this funding gap to energize innovative research.
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The survey quotes research that says closing the male-female employment gap would have huge economic implications for developed economies, boosting U.S. GDP by as much as 9%, eurozone GDP by as much as 13% and Japanese GDP by as much as 16%.
This month Target had lower prices than Wal-Mart for the first time since October, according to research conducted by Bloomberg Industries, which examined the gap in average price across a basket of 150 like items at stores within five miles of each other.
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Earlier research in Latin America found that demographic change increased the income gap between rich and poor.
Both Nexans and Pirelli also do research into fibre-optic technologies, the former to plug a gap caused by Alcatel's decision to keep its fibre business when it spun off its other cable operations to Nexans.
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The event therefore takes a very real and up-front approach to increasing the visibility of women in science, and raising awareness of the current gender gap in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) research.
Not only are those who take a greater number of online courses less likely to ever earn degrees, new research from Columbia shows that the rise of online education actually widens the achievement gap between demographic groups, with those who struggle in a traditional college setting having an even more difficult time navigating the waters of MOOCs and distance ed.
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But new research indicates that, even when women are their own bosses, the gender pay gap persists.
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The UK is producing more university graduates than any other industrialised country, but the gap between the most and least well-educated is still critical, research suggests.
According to HMIe the need for improvement is great, as research has indicated that Scottish education is less successful than other countries in closing the gap between the achievements of children from well-off and less well-off homes.
However, research firm IDC's data put HP at the top, though it showed the gap between the two was closing.
"There is always a gap between development and deployment, " says Alan Brown, an analyst with Gartner Research, noting that Bluetooth technology took four or five years to take off after it was finalized.
Rather than a comprehensive evaluation of all available research, EFSA cherry-picked the studies and proceeded to their conclusion in spite of an acknowledged gap in not only the data they analyzed but their understanding of it.
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He said that the growing use of comparative effectiveness research, which provides information on the relative strengths and weaknesses of different medical technologies, could help close the gap between what is known and what is done in pharmaceutical care.
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