Sentences with phrase «federal research support»

A serious transmission process for innovation requires much more attention to rewarding districts that serve as alpha sites (starting with philanthropic and federal research support), easing the transfer of new solutions from district hands to independent entities, and creating a culture where such a dynamic transmission belt is regarded as a good, healthy, and normal thing.
«I would still strongly encourage any child interested in science to pursue their dream and passion, but I hope that our current and future investment in NIH and other federal research support agencies will rise above any branch of government to help our next generation reach their potential and dreams.»
It is time to reverse the declining trend in federal research support and re-invigorate American innovation.»
That decline limits hiring by universities and other nonprofit research institutions that receive federal research support.

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Edith Cowan University's Vario Health Institute is seeking federal funding to support its preventative health research programs.
America's corporate research labs, which have been working with academic research institutions supported by federal funding, have long been the envy of the world.
Created in 1997 with support from the federal government and Alberta, AVAC Ltd. is a venture capital investor that provides investment funding for research and commercialization for Alberta - based companies in the areas of agriculture, renewable resources, and industrial technology.
The Jenkins report proposes creating an Industrial Research and Innovation Council (IRIC) as an «' arms length» agency... [to] become the common service platform for all appropriate federal business innovation support programs», reporting to Parliament through the proposed Minister for Innovation.
2 Innovation Canada: A Call to Action, Review of Federal Support to Research and Development — Expert Panel, section 6, «Overview of the SR&ED Program», October 17, 2011.
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The SBIR program was created to support scientific excellence and technological innovation through the investment of federal research funds in critical American priorities to build a strong national economy... one business at a time.
«To have the federal government commit to research and development, to programs that are currently in place, is important and sends a strong signal to Bombardier and to the other players in the aerospace industry that the federal government is there to support this industry,» Bellemare said.
and Sherrod Brown (D - Ohio) sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) asking the federal watchdog agency to research and report on the economic subsidy that too - big - to - fail banks receive as a result of actual or perceived taxpayer support.
While innovation is a broad term, the questions outline potential federal measures, including support for the tech sector, research and development and encouraging geographical clusters of expertise.
Federal support for research and development is generous and essential, but too often, government - assisted research results in patents that create jobs abroad; consider how little Apple and Microsoft technology results in U.S. - based manufacturing.
The reason for this multi-partisan support for Housing First is due to the results of the federal - government sponsored research project, At Home / Chez Soi.
That research led to improved gearbox designs, reducing the overall cost of wind energy and showing how collaborative industry efforts and federal support for R&D can resolve performance challenges.
In August of last year, President Bush approved the use of federal funds to support research on a limited number of existing human embryonic stem cell lines.
Woolworths has thrown its support behind the Australian Federal Government's new Cooperative Research Centre, established to help stop food waste.
FLPC will assist the Good Food Institute, whose goal is to disrupt animal agriculture by supporting plant and culture - based alternatives to meat, dairy, and eggs, to research and identify the federal laws and policies that facilitate or impede plant and culture - based alternatives to meat, dairy, and eggs.
IRRI's work in India is supported by contributions from ICAR, the DAC; state agricultural universities (SAUs); the Government of India and its Department of Biotechnology; state agriculture departments (MOA); Asian Development Bank (ADB); United States Agency for International Development (USAID); International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD); Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF); Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR); Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC); International Initiative for Impact Evaluation; SARMAP; German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ); CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF); CGIAR Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security Research Program (CCAFS); Generation Challenge Programme (GCP); Japan's Ministry of Finance; the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council of the UK (BBSRC), the Department for International Development (DFID); and the European Commission (EC).
It calls for banning hydrofracking at both the state and federal levels and also urges further research in, and economic support for, alternative forms of «non-polluting» energy sources like wind, solar and hydropower.
The Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research (NKI) announced this week that it secured $ 20 million in federal grant funding to support Alzheimer's Disease (AD) rResearch (NKI) announced this week that it secured $ 20 million in federal grant funding to support Alzheimer's Disease (AD) researchresearch.
The radio ads criticize Buerkle, claiming she supports a Republican bill to cut federal education spending by 40 percent, as well as reduce science and technology research spending by 40 percent.
«The Government expects that Dr. Taub will testify that for many years he disapproved of [Silver's] law firm Weitz & Luxenberg because it made millions of dollars from representing mesothelioma victims (enough to buy «private jets»), and yet it did not donate money to support mesothelioma researchfederal prosecutors wrote in the new court papers, which were filed Monday.
We rely upon our full - time staff of attorneys, forensic accountants, research analysts, field investigators and computer forensics experts to staff these assignments, and we work collaboratively with our business clients to develop an investigative plan that is appropriate to the suspected misconduct... Since most of our investigative professionals have had experience in federal, state and local law enforcement — as prosecutors, auditors and agents — our investigative strategies are developed with an understanding of the evidence that may be needed to support an eventual criminal prosecution.»
Although federal support for science is lagging, Biden quoted President John F. Kennedy speaking about the race to the moon, saying Americans are «unwilling to postpone» what needs to be done to accelerate cancer research.
Since 1976, the AAAS R&D Budget and Policy Program has served as a leading source of analysis on funding and policy issues affecting federal support for research and development (R&D).
Holt also wrote an editorial in Science on 17 November addressing the uncertainty of federal support for scientific research under the new administration and advocating for better integration of science into policymaking.
AAAS sent a letter to the incoming leadership and Appropriations Committee chairs, urging them to support federal research and development funding as they complete the Fiscal Year 2007 appropriations process.
On March 9, AAAS thanked President Obama for his executive order on federal support for human embryonic stem cell research and for his memorandum on scientific integrity.
AAAS wrote to leaders in Congress and the White House, encouraging them to back efforts to expand federal support for stem cell research.
«A consistent area of bipartisan agreement over the past 70 years has been the importance of the federal government's role in supporting research and innovation.»
Yet without federal funding to support such specialized research, he added, «We wouldn't have been at the right place at the right time.»
Nicholson, like many researchers, has wanted federal research agencies to support more work in this area.
Currently, none expressly supports geoengineering research, though federal climate science officials have been quietly reviewing the idea for the entirety of the Obama administration.
«Every major university [and] nonprofit research institution in the U.S. — almost all of them have federal grants [to] support their research, so with time they are going to have to develop their policies» to reflect the new regulations, Dean says.
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency that supports fundamental research and education across all fields of science and engineering.
With additional funds requested from the VA Medical Care Program in support of research, and estimated services and grants from other federal and private sources totaling $ 1.4 billion, the combined total estimated VA - performed research and development would exceed $ 1.9 billion (see funding table above).
The year's most prominent science issue, federal support of embryonic stem cell research, is so controversial that the sons of Ronald Reagan gave dueling speeches at the opposing party conventions; Michael Reagan backs President George W. Bush's policies, including the ban on funding for research on new stem cell lines, while Ron supports Senator John Kerry's promise to lift restrictions.
Without an expanding economy and an expanding federal budget for scientific research, an expanding research workforce can not be supported.
Recently, the federal government announced a draft statement that directly addresses this issue by offering explicit funding in research grants to support the costs of sharing biomaterials and other forms of data (see the National Institutes of Health's Draft Statement on Sharing Researcresearch grants to support the costs of sharing biomaterials and other forms of data (see the National Institutes of Health's Draft Statement on Sharing ResearchResearch Data).
Up to now, the federal government has failed to support the research needed to prepare for the health consequences of hotter weather, according to a March 2009 report in Environmental Health Perspectives, by Balbus and colleagues around the United States.
-» [M] ost Federal government support for new basic research» stopped during the shutdown «due to furloughs of 98 percent of NSF employees, nearly three quarters of the NIH [National Institutes of Health], and two thirds of the CDC.»
Still, the administration's lack of support for basic federal research overall has alarmed many scientists and their supporters.
This study was supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the German Research Foundation (DFG), and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
At the «Innovation: An American Imperative» symposium October 20 on Capitol Hill, industry leaders and members of Congress talked about shoring up federal support for basic research and development
While the choice of Clovis is clearly a break from past administrations, the most important qualification may be a good understanding of agriculture and the workings of the federal land grant college system, where much of the publicly supported research is done, said Lee Van Wychen, science policy director for the Weed Science Society of America.
The Big Data Research and Development Initiative pledges $ 200 million for NIH, the National Science Foundation, and other federal agencies to support data collection, analysis, and dispersion.
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