If we are serious about fusion development, the president should appoint a fusion power commissioner with the authority to organize and streamline the research, development, and deployment of fusion power, especially by directing new areas of research and development within our national laboratories.
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President GEORGE W. BUSH: Do you realize that economists say that as much as half of our nation's economic growth in the last half-century is directly due to technological progress, fueled by research and development, the kind of research and development you can do right here?
Personal story: One of my first jobs out of college involved editing technical manuals for the Electric Power Research Institute, a research and development consortium for electric utilities.
Then, in its handling of the RESPECT trial of PFO closure, the company transformed the ideals of research and development into research and denial.
The first thing that raised Teeters' suspicions was Elan's habit of funding some research and development through unconsolidated research entities.
Fortunately the error was identified and corrected quickly and we are now again investing heavily in talent development, research and development, as well as avoiding any big chills for short term gain.
"It will truly help revolutionize how we do research, " says Kurt Swogger, head of plastics research and development at Dow.
FORBES: Upstart Symyx is shaking up the stodgy chemicals industry.
Although FGM, or taking someone abroad for the procedure, is illegal in the UK, research by Forward (Foundation for Women's Health Research and Development) found more than 20, 000 girls in England and Wales were at risk.
BBC: Tackling female genital mutilation 'taboo' in Birmingham
There will also be grants for communities to purchase electric vehicles and more research and development funding for battery research.
FORBES: All new federal vehicles to run on alternative fuels after 2015
Finland-based the Helsingin Sanomat Foundation promotes and supports freedom of expression, mainly through research connected with communication and the communication industry, especially future-oriented research, or research that promotes the development of new innovations in the communication industry.
The European marine-energy research centre is located in the Orkney Islands, and plenty of research and development work is being done around the country.
In early 2007, China launched the so-called "863 Initiative, " which initiated multiple electric vehicle research and development projects by universities, research institutes and companies.
"We don't build cars in research labs, " Larry Burns, GM's vice president of research, development and strategic planning, told the Free Press.
Schering Corporation become a global research-based pharmaceutical firm in the 1950s and '60s based on both research and development and acquisitions.
The Fourth Technical Workshop of the IOC Sub-Commission for the Western Pacific (WESTPAC) on Ocean Forecasting System will take place in Bogor, Indonesia, 5-6 March 2013 with the kind host of the Research and Development Agency for Marine and Fisheries Research, Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries of Indonesia.
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Before that, he spent a decade running the materials research institute at Princeton University, and nearly as much time at Exxon, in charge of research and development.
It also wants an expanded Earned Income Tax Credit, an expanded saver's credit and a permanent exclusion from capital gains taxes on small business investment. (Does anyone think green energy tax credits will vanish anytime soon?) One ghost that keeps returning: the research credit, first introduced in 1981, which allows companies to write off a portion of their research and development expenses.
It is the only intergovernmental programme that aims to apply social science research to development issues, encouraging policy-oriented-research to face current global challenges, and bridging the gaps between researchers, civil society and policy-makers in order to allow them to work together, whilst respecting the individual role and place of each actor.
Last week Celgene described its stem cell program research and development in a central setting for the analytical and research community.
Dr Arkhom Termpittayapaisith , Secretary-General of the National Economic and Social Development Board (NESDB) and of the Research and Development Institute of Sufficiency Economy Philosophy (RSEPF) will deliver the keynote lecture.
To conclude, an agreement concerning cooperative research and development in the field of earthquake engineering between the Building Research Institute (BRI) of Japan and the National Center for Seismic Risk Reduction (NCSRR) of Romania was signed.
There was an enormous concentration by government on defence-related research and development, which crowded out what might otherwise have been more productive research.
"When we look at the costs of the research and development that went into these improvements, we find that funding agricultural research ranks among the cheapest ways to prevent greenhouse gas emissions, " according to Steven Davis, a co-author of the paper.
And that's through research and development, the kind of early bench science, the kind of early research in engineering that leads to discoveries, that leads to new industries.
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Although private industry outspends Washington in total research and development dollars, the federal government is far and away the most generous supporter of basic research.
Development partners and industry have an important role to play in fostering conducive conditions for research and development, production and distribution in developing countries, including through technology transfers and capacity building.
However, for now almost all of the company's revenues come from the development and construction of its so-called PowerBuoy systems for demonstrations and customer-sponsored research and development.
In 2002 the Institute of Medicine (which is not part of the NIH, but is the health arm of the National Academy of Sciences) called for the creation of a National Vaccine Authority that would have sweeping responsibilities, including market research, the establishment of priorities, control of intellectual-property rights, the conduct of in-house research and development and the financing of clinical trials of candidate vaccines.
The company is also building a new facility on the campus to house research and development.
He sees synergies in general and administrative costs, in manufacturing and also in research and development.
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