And there is a host of microeconomic ideas, such as tax breaks for research and development, designed to promote investment.

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Because little research, and even less development, has happened since, the pipeline of good ideas is getting steadily emptier.

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Many of the firms in attendance Tuesday favor some of the ideas he espouses, like a permanent extension of the federal research and development credit, which Congress allowed to lapse in December.

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