Witty says he's comfortable with paying for high-risk research that may not always pan out.
Pharmaceutical companies say that high monopoly rents on new medicines assure incentives for high-risk research on future path-breaking medicines and pay for past efforts that resulted in failure.
"I think this us a sign of underlying structural issues which you have seen in South Africa for a long time, " said Mark Rosenberg, an Africa analyst with the risk research firm Eurasia Group.
Furthermore, independent risk research can hardly be conducted since the companies can block access to research material or ask the scientists to sign contracts where they agree not to publish anything that is not agreed with the company.
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While the moves are legal and disclosed in regulatory filings, "there are certainly some fairly serious red flags in terms of behavior that are raised there, " said Paul Hodgson, chief research analyst for GMI Ratings, a corporate-governance and risk-management research firm.
It is only through diligent research that risk and harm can be determined, quantified and, when necessary, regulated to reflect the public interest.
To persuade the prevention-minded person to take a risk, recent research by psychologists Abigail Scholer, Xi Zou, Ken Fujita, Steve Stroessner, and E.
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Knowles has turned down the risk levels and narrowed research into seven fast-growing disease markets, eliminating research in more mature areas like antibiotics and heart disease.
CSAG's impartial Global Security Risk Monitor was the research tool utilized in 2004 by the Center for Security Policy to evaluate the portfolios of public pension funds across America.
Annual sales growth in North America has slowed from 30% in the 1980s to 8% to 9% last year, estimates Angela Wilbraham at the research firm Risk Waters Group in London.
Annual sales growth in North America has slowed from 30% in the 1980s to a respectable 8% to 9% last year, estimates Angela Wilbraham at research firm Risk Waters Group in London.
As part of a system like this, there should be a natural mechanism that provides space for risk-taking and research that pushes the envelope in bold ways that could unearth breakthroughs in education.
CRISIL, an impressive outfit, is furthest down this path with half its sales from abroad, mainly from helping banks with equity research and risk-management models, demand for which has soared thanks to more regulation in the rich world.
An aspirin a day may slow brain decline in elderly women at high risk of cardiovascular disease, research finds.
But now there's a different risk to consider: New research appears to show a link between alcohol and breast cancer in women.
The less civil the accompanying comments, the more risk readers attributed to the research, a finding that has implications for the public understanding of science.
Most importantly, the strategy introduces principles for targeting and accelerating nanotechnology EHS research so that risk assessment and risk management decisions are based on sound science.
It later submitted another analysis showing the reactor could run at 100 percent power, but the research found the risk of a tube break could reach unacceptable levels after 11 months.
In response, NPEs say they encourage innovation by rewarding small inventors and by helping to make a market for patents, which also makes it easier to manage the risk of investments in applied research.
This finding may reflect previous research on differences in risk tolerance between women and men.
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The research team suggest the risk of damaging eyesight "may also need to be considered".
Jeff Stier is a senior fellow at the National Center for Public Policy Research and directs its Risk Analysis Division.
It is only through more research, supported by risk capital in the private sector, that we will make progress in addressing these diseases and their costs.
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Pinched wallets are putting the so-called feature phone--which includes a camera, Bluetooth, text messaging and Web surfing capabilities--at risk, says Avi Greengart, research director of mobile devices at Current Analysis.
Some of these risks, according to Upendra Choudhary, senior vice president of credit services at Amba Research, include trading risk (some of these markets are thinly traded and have low liquidity), political risk and transparency risk (some areas have no or at least confusing accounting standards).
Chenxi Wang is Vice President, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, serving security and risk professionals.
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At the same time not changing the direction of biomedical research may constitute the highest risk.
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