Sentences with phrase «boost in research funding»

Although the polytechnics that did well in the recent assessment of research activities received a boost in research funding, most remain at a disadvantage to established universities.

«We are delighted to announce the award of Recovery Act funds to many dedicated, hardworking scientists committed to advancing scientific discovery into Alzheimer's disease and cognitive impairment,» said NIA Director Richard J. Hodes, M.D. «Over the next two years, the recipients will use this unprecedented boost in research funds to help reach our ultimate goal of understanding age - related cognitive decline and reducing the individual and societal burden of this devastating disease.»

Not exact matches

The UK capital hopes to lure talent with its East London «Silicon Roundabout,» (OK, a «roundabout» sounds a bit dinky compared to a whole «valley,» but the area boasts a new Google - sponsored space for start - ups as well as 300 innovative companies) as well as measures to boost the city's start - up scene, including # 75 million in funding for high - tech small and medium businesses from the government's new Innovation and Research Strategy for Growth and the Digital London summit showcasing local tech talent that's due to be held March 13 to 14.

If the new administration really wants to restore U.S. manufacturing, fix the trade deficit, and boost innovation, it should leverage the best ideas that come from federal research programs and invest in funding the next big thing.

With support from the Innovation Fund, the Sustainable Finance Initiative conducted market research and designed its Cocoa Rejuvenation Finance Project, a multi-phase, multi-partner sustainable cocoa finance project initiated in Côte d'Ivoire to help smallholder cocoa farmers gain access to long - term loans in order to rejuvenate their farms and boost yields.

This could boost the role of private technology companies as states expand funding for military research in order to keep pace with their rivals.

The project will be boosted by $ 2.5 million in funding from the state Energy Research and Development Authority.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo laid out a number of efforts in his 2013 agenda to encourage the commercialization of academic research and boost entrepreneurship, including a venture capital fund and network of incubators, which are seen as mechanisms to boost economic growth.

Democratic 2016 frontrunner Hillary Clinton rolled out a plan to boost manufacturing in the United States and assist recovering post-industrial communities, part of a package of tax credits and federal research funding.

The Labour leader was right, for example, to emphasise the need to boost research and development, improve skill levels and invest in transport while his pledge to allow councils to borrow to build more homes would help unlock more of the funding they need to address housing shortages.

The MP who ran Andrea Leadsom's leadership bid tells openDemocracy that he wasn't involved in commissioning a key opinion poll which boosted her campaign and was funded by the secretive Constitutional Research Council.

So far, though, Senate appropriators have allocated greater fiscal 2018 spending levels than their House counterparts for such science programs as the Energy Department's Office of Science, which is the nation's largest provider of funding for basic research in the physical sciences, and the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy program, which seeks to advance technology for water and geothermal power and boost energy efficiency in manufacturing.

A separate report by a House of Lords committee has concluded that EU membership has boosted scientific research in the UK, largely thanks to extra funding, ease of movement and common regulations.

Throughout this explosion of research, advocacy groups have been a powerful force in boosting funding and shaping the agenda, and they continue pushing for increasingly ambitious, some say unrealistic, goals.

Although some basic researchers have complained about the E.U.'s emphasis on applied research — about 15 % of the current Framework budget is dedicated to funding SMEs — Potocnik sees them as key in using science to boost Europe's economy.

Such research has enjoyed a significant funding boost in recent years.

Buoyed by an allocation of $ 1.25 billion in funding for reactor research from the 2005 Energy Policy Act, INL scientists are working to improve safety, boost efficiency, minimize waste, and decrease cost in a new generation of nuclear reactors.

While politicians are still working on the final wording of the amendment, «[t] he agreement spells out that the federal government will also continue its funding of several key programs that have boosted research budgets in recent years, such as the Joint Initiative for Research and Innovation — which funds nonuniversity research organizations like the Helmholtz Association and the Max Planck Society — and the Excellence Initiative, which allows universities to compete for extra funding for special projects and the title of «elite university.»research budgets in recent years, such as the Joint Initiative for Research and Innovation — which funds nonuniversity research organizations like the Helmholtz Association and the Max Planck Society — and the Excellence Initiative, which allows universities to compete for extra funding for special projects and the title of «elite university.»Research and Innovation — which funds nonuniversity research organizations like the Helmholtz Association and the Max Planck Society — and the Excellence Initiative, which allows universities to compete for extra funding for special projects and the title of «elite university.»research organizations like the Helmholtz Association and the Max Planck Society — and the Excellence Initiative, which allows universities to compete for extra funding for special projects and the title of «elite university.»»

It's not clear why appropriators boosted the Office of Science so far beyond, say, the 4 % increase they gave to the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Standards and Technology, two other mainstays of federally funded basic research in the physical sciences.

The German government has boosted funding for new institutes such as the German Biomass Research Center (DBFZ) in Leipzig, as well as existing organisations such as the Berlin - based Helmholtz Association, which operates 18 research centres across the Research Center (DBFZ) in Leipzig, as well as existing organisations such as the Berlin - based Helmholtz Association, which operates 18 research centres across the research centres across the country.

This boost in science capital, up 9 percent from last year, is part of the European Union's (EU) Seventh Framework Programme for research and technology development (FP7), and will fund research that will «tackle the biggest societal challenges facing Europe and the world.»

The agreement spells out that the federal government will also continue its funding of several key programs that have boosted research budgets in recent years, such as the Joint Initiative for Research and Innovation — which funds nonuniversity research organizations like the Helmholtz Association and the Max Planck Society — and the Excellence Initiative, which allows universities to compete for extra funding for special projects and the title of «elite universityresearch budgets in recent years, such as the Joint Initiative for Research and Innovation — which funds nonuniversity research organizations like the Helmholtz Association and the Max Planck Society — and the Excellence Initiative, which allows universities to compete for extra funding for special projects and the title of «elite universityResearch and Innovation — which funds nonuniversity research organizations like the Helmholtz Association and the Max Planck Society — and the Excellence Initiative, which allows universities to compete for extra funding for special projects and the title of «elite universityresearch organizations like the Helmholtz Association and the Max Planck Society — and the Excellence Initiative, which allows universities to compete for extra funding for special projects and the title of «elite university.»

Those funds will in part support three existing RWJF organizations — Active Living by Design, Active Living Research and Leadership for Healthy Communities — that seek to change policy, the environment and behavior to boost physical activity.

All things considered, the NOAA budget released today is «decently healthy,» says Jeff Watters, director of government relations at the Ocean Conservancy in Washington, D.C. Even some areas that weren't highly funded — for example, ocean acidification research — still received a slight boost over the previous fiscal year.

A battle has erupted in Brussels over the European Commission's plan to raid funds earmarked for research, in a bid to boost Europe's lagging economy.

The Society credits Merkel for boosting German research funding and for «the leadership she has provided on the European and world stages in promoting science - based policy making over issues such as climate change.»

In the end, thanks to the recent budget deal that lifted federal discretionary spending caps, NOAA was granted an overall funding boost, which trickled down to core research as well as key satellite development funding.

Taking 2010 as the starting point, the government pledges to almost double the representation of Ph.D. - holders among the population age 25 to 34 by 2020 and increase research employment from 11.8 % to 16 %; raise to 10 % the share of publicly - funded Spanish papers ranked among the top 5 % of the most cited publications globally; increase Spain's share of European Union research funds, including a 90 % increase in the number of so - called Starting Grants from the European Research Council; boost the number of patent applications by 50 %; and raise the national percentage of innovative companies from 18.6 % research employment from 11.8 % to 16 %; raise to 10 % the share of publicly - funded Spanish papers ranked among the top 5 % of the most cited publications globally; increase Spain's share of European Union research funds, including a 90 % increase in the number of so - called Starting Grants from the European Research Council; boost the number of patent applications by 50 %; and raise the national percentage of innovative companies from 18.6 % research funds, including a 90 % increase in the number of so - called Starting Grants from the European Research Council; boost the number of patent applications by 50 %; and raise the national percentage of innovative companies from 18.6 % Research Council; boost the number of patent applications by 50 %; and raise the national percentage of innovative companies from 18.6 % to 25 %.

A statement just in from Carrie Wolinetz, president, United for Medical Research, a coalition that works to boost biomedical research Research, a coalition that works to boost biomedical research research funding.

The agreement will significantly boost the current $ 14 million annual research budget of the Whitehead / MIT center, one hub of the massive government - funded effort to locate and characterize the estimated 60,000 to 100,000 genes in the human genome.

Supported in part by the Washington Research Foundation (WRF), the fund gives researchers the boost they need to make it through the development and testing phase of commercialization.

The shifting US political landscape should also help boost revenues for many companies investing in ESCs, if President Barack Obama expands federal funding for ESC research, says Brozak.

In 2014, FP7 is replaced by Horizon 2020, a new funding framework that brings together all existing EU - level programs that support research and innovation to ensure scientific excellence; boost industrial leadership and competitiveness; and tackle societal challenges.

Research ranging from Latin poetry to neuroethics at the University of British Columbia has received an $ 8.5 million boost in federal funding for eight professors appointed or renewed as Canada Research Chairs.

Gordon Brown has announced that science education and research will receive a huge boost in government funding.

Oklahoma's state - funded preschool for all program boosts children's skills dramatically, whether they are from disadvantaged families or middle class families, concludes this study from Georgetown University's Public Policy Institute and Center for Research on Children in the United States.

There are other proposals to use a very modest tweak in fuel taxes to boost basic research and development funding aimed at expanding nonpolluting energy options (nuclear, solar, storage, etc)-- an arena that has been unbelievably underfunded for decades (see graph at link) compared to other areas of scientific inquiry.

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), signed into law by US Democrats in response to the international financial meltdown of 2008, offered the biggest boost for renewables since President Carter first funded solar research in the»70s.

As for the various «facts» in Swindle put forward to support the thesis that global warming is a giant conspiracy carried out by scientists who want to boost their research funding, every one has been refuted by eminent scientists.

There was some good preventive health news in the Budget with a $ 10 million funding boost for research into chronic disease prevention at The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre, led by the Sax Institute.

And the Courier Mail covered a call by the University of Queensland's vice-chancellor Professor Peter Hoj to overhaul the Commonwealth Grants Scheme that funds student places at university, in order to boost the research power of the country's top institutions.