Take the case of MIT, which spent years researching and developing a 22-megawatt cogeneration plant for its campus.

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Jason Steiner is an Associate with T2 Venture Capital, researching and developing tools for the design of innovation ecosystems.

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One underlying problem is a lack of financial incentives to spur pharmaceutical companies to invest in researching and developing new antibiotics.

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Warwick has spent more than 20 years researching and developing intelligent buildings.

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"We have spent over six years researching and developing our proposals and have worked with planning and environmental experts to ensure that our planning application was robust and thorough, " he said.

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Online they are sharing, friend validating, researching, learning and developing a point of view.

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Open source projects require the writing of code, sure, but also developing documentation and training methods, managing and researching communities of users, testing the quality of existing code and designing the interfaces and interactions of user experience.

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For example, there are young people researching cures for cancer, developing community-wide interventions for poverty and creating products we use in everyday life.

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