Sentences with phrase «breakthrough research while»

The Wistar Institute's independent nonprofit 501 (c)(3) status creates a platform for our researchers to do original thinking and breakthrough research while also providing a community of collaboration — similar to a research «think tank» — not often found in larger medical and academic institutions.

Not exact matches

Most of the highly successful entrepreneurs we interviewed while researching our new book, Breakthrough Entrepreneurship, did not cite money as their prime motivator.

In the letter to Yahoo's board, Microsoft said a tie - up would achieve economics of scale while allowing combined research and development efforts to achieve breakthrough products, particularly in the growing areas of online video and mobile Internet connections.

DOE research grants seek scientific breakthroughs, while loan guarantees underwrite the expansion of solar unit manufacturing with today's technologies.

While TIGR and the former JCVI have been leading the way in genomic breakthroughs for more than 15 years, we are now confident that our unified organization will be an even greater scientific force in genomic research.»

But every billion - dollar carbon - capture project, in the meantime, is raiding money that might otherwise go into basic research and development aimed at advancing solar technology or large - scale energy storage or other fields where breakthroughs could help lay the groundwork for a post-fossil global energy system — instead of providing a dicey Band - Aid to keep societies stuck on the coal rung of the heat ladder a while longer.

The political tendency is to spend on development, while the report notes that breakthroughs come mainly from blue - sky basic research.

Gates hammered on points reported here for many years: that without a big, and sustained, boost in spending on basic research and development on energy frontiers, the chances of triggering an energy revolution are nil; that while the private sector and venture capital investors are vital for transforming breakthroughs into marketable products or services, they will not invest in the long - haul inquiry that's required to generate game - changing breakthroughs; that a 1 or 2 percent tax on carbon - emitting fuels could generate a large, steady stream of money for invigorating the innovation pipeline; that a declining emissions cap and credit trading system --- if it could survive America's polarized politics --- would have to raise energy costs far beyond what would be politically tenable to generate a similar scale of transformational activity.

Other players in the let's lie back enjoy it while paying for a lot of research that may or may not do anything school are our new friends from the Breakthrough Institute, Ted Nordhaus and Michael Schellenberger who are also playing the press like a squeeze box.