Sentences with phrase «for research spending»

Weingarten cautions against equating R&D spending too closely with innovation, noting that many oil and gas companies fare poorly under such measurements because of Statistics Canada's criteria for research spending, but still frequently develop new methods and ideas.

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For example, in some places, including Canada, tax breaks are effective at encouraging more spending on research and development; in other countries, direct subsidies appear to be a better approach.

For example, buying a million - dollar property you intend to flip without the proper research can make for a bad investment, but spending $ 82,000 in real estate education — as one acquaintance did — can also deplete the reserves you need to invest in the first plaFor example, buying a million - dollar property you intend to flip without the proper research can make for a bad investment, but spending $ 82,000 in real estate education — as one acquaintance did — can also deplete the reserves you need to invest in the first plafor a bad investment, but spending $ 82,000 in real estate education — as one acquaintance did — can also deplete the reserves you need to invest in the first place.

Brian Wieser, a Pivotal Research analyst who reviewed Nielsen digital consumption data, said Google properties, including YouTube and Waze, combined to account for 27.4 percent of all time spent on digital media — up 3 percentage points from the previous year.

After spending millions of dollars and several years doing research, a company can still fail to bring a product to market — leaving its investors with little to show for their money except disappointment and a tax write - off.

Harvard research has shown that students who viewed a silent video clip of a professor teaching for just two seconds rated that professor's performance nearly as well as students who had spent a whole semester in the professor's class.

Whether you're raising seed funding for your business or you're bootstrapping, spending the time to research and build a better business plan with appropriate forecasting will save you money — and will likely save your business.

Not just for aesthetic reasons, but because the forward - thinking company is well aware of all the research that shows spending time in nature is good for our attention, creativity, and mood.

As a new study from the Shareholder Association for Research and Education shows, some well - known Canadian corporations have been spending on political influence south of the border as well.

You'll need to find the best topics to write about, optimize the headlines both for click - throughs and for search engines and spend time researching and writing a well - thought - out and detailed original piece.

A total of $ 170 million has been spent on research for the project so far, according to Boeing.

For instance, business spending on research and development has actually dropped to 0.89 per cent of gross domestic product in 2011 from 1.29 per cent 10 years earlier.

Weddings Budgets for a walk down the aisle are tight this year, according to an Arizona - based research firm the Wedding Report, which found the average amount couples spent on their dream wedding decreased by at least 10 % in 2009.

In other words, women in Louisiana earn 70 cents for every dollar men in Louisiana make, or they spend 10.5 hours of each 35 - hour work week «working for free,» as Expert Market's research team puts it.

Spending an excessive amount of time researching and pouring over materials for a basic meeting, conference, or speech is usually a waste of time.

«Many times you can spend just as much trying to research something (and still not know for sure) as it would cost you to just start doing it.»

In the long run, that's good for the industry, freeing up resources to spend on research and development rather than existing patents and legal fees.

The good news is that there are a variety of ways you, as an entrepreneur, can conduct some market research to assess the potential demand for your product or service without spending a lot of money or hiring an expensive market research team.

While spending time in front of your computer conducting research and gathering information can be helpful in ascertaining the potential of your product or service, the truth is that the most valuable feedback you can get is whether someone, regardless of what they tell you, will actually hand over money for it.

He's spent his career lecturing to and on the aerospace industry, having taught for several semesters at George Washington University while publishing countless papers and research reports as well as one book on the industry.

Women have less time for on - the - job labor because they spend more time doing housework than their male counterparts — so they miss out when they're working in fields that reward long hours, based on a new National Bureau for Economic Research study.

In this in - depth research from BI Intelligence that updates our popular July 2014 report on programmatic, we find that the US digital - ad market will reach a programmatic «tipping - point»: For the first time this year, programmatic transactions will be a majority (52 %) of non-search digital - ad spend.

Games are the dominant media on smart devices, accounting for 32 percent of time spent overall and 76 percent of time spent on tablets alone, according to the research firm Digi - Capital.

U.S. digital video ad spending for 2014 is estimated at nearly $ 6 billion, while TV ad spending is about $ 69 billion, according to research firm eMarketer.

Bell Labs was backed by AT&T, the largest monopoly in the world, which allowed them to spend millions of dollars on research that might never prove profitable — a situation unimaginable for many of today's companies.

Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, without limitation: (1) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including financial market conditions, fluctuations in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, levels of end market demand in construction and in both the commercial and defense segments of the aerospace industry, levels of air travel, financial condition of commercial airlines, the impact of weather conditions and natural disasters and the financial condition of our customers and suppliers; (2) challenges in the development, production, delivery, support, performance and realization of the anticipated benefits of advanced technologies and new products and services; (3) the scope, nature, impact or timing of acquisition and divestiture or restructuring activity, including the pending acquisition of Rockwell Collins, including among other things integration of acquired businesses into United Technologies» existing businesses and realization of synergies and opportunities for growth and innovation; (4) future timing and levels of indebtedness, including indebtedness expected to be incurred by United Technologies in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition, and capital spending and research and development spending, including in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition; (5) future availability of credit and factors that may affect such availability, including credit market conditions and our capital structure; (6) the timing and scope of future repurchases of United Technologies» common stock, which may be suspended at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level of other investing activities and uses of cash, including in connection with the proposed acquisition of Rockwell; (7) delays and disruption in delivery of materials and services from suppliers; (8) company and customer - directed cost reduction efforts and restructuring costs and savings and other consequences thereof; (9) new business and investment opportunities; (10) our ability to realize the intended benefits of organizational changes; (11) the anticipated benefits of diversification and balance of operations across product lines, regions and industries; (12) the outcome of legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies; (13) pension plan assumptions and future contributions; (14) the impact of the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and labor disputes; (15) the effect of changes in political conditions in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate, including the effect of changes in U.S. trade policies or the U.K.'s pending withdrawal from the EU, on general market conditions, global trade policies and currency exchange rates in the near term and beyond; (16) the effect of changes in tax (including U.S. tax reform enacted on December 22, 2017, which is commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017), environmental, regulatory (including among other things import / export) and other laws and regulations in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate; (17) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins to receive the required regulatory approvals (and the risk that such approvals may result in the imposition of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits of the merger) and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing of the pending acquisition on a timely basis or at all; (18) the occurrence of events that may give rise to a right of one or both of United Technologies or Rockwell Collins to terminate the merger agreement, including in circumstances that might require Rockwell Collins to pay a termination fee of $ 695 million to United Technologies or $ 50 million of expense reimbursement; (19) negative effects of the announcement or the completion of the merger on the market price of United Technologies» and / or Rockwell Collins» common stock and / or on their respective financial performance; (20) risks related to Rockwell Collins and United Technologies being restricted in their operation of their businesses while the merger agreement is in effect; (21) risks relating to the value of the United Technologies» shares to be issued in connection with the pending Rockwell acquisition, significant merger costs and / or unknown liabilities; (22) risks associated with third party contracts containing consent and / or other provisions that may be triggered by the Rockwell merger agreement; (23) risks associated with merger - related litigation or appraisal proceedings; and (24) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins, or the combined company, to retain and hire key personnel.

In researching for his upcoming book on fulfilling work, Schulich's Burke found that Johnson & Johnson saw at least a $ 4 return on every dollar it spent on employee wellness initiatives in terms of lower health - care costs, less absenteeism and higher productivity.

The change that received the most attention was the decision to tighten the high - profile Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) program, which gives out cash and tax credits for R&D spending in Canada.

Health experts have responded by urging office workers to get up more often or even switch to a standing desk, but new research offers another easy way to trim the amount of time you spend sitting each day — opt for standing meetings.

About a fifth (21 percent) think the answer is investing more money in IT systems, and 13 percent say they should spend more time planning and researching the best solutions for the company's needs.

After graduating, he spent the first 14 years of his career working toward that goal, rising to head of research at the Bank of Canada, before leaving for a short tenure in the private sector.

The program has been a lucrative one for Amazon, with Prime customers spending an average of $ 1,300 annually compared with about $ 700 for nonmembers, according to Consumer Intelligence Research Partners.

If Roberts's experiment confirmed the scientific consensus about why the internet is so compelling, it also confirmed another evolving line of research — spending time in nature is really, really good medicine for the human brain.

Instead, spending was targetted at areas considered «critical for productivity,» such as housing, research and development (R&D) and economic infrastructure.

In this all - new in - depth research from BI Intelligence that updates our popular July 2014 report on programmatic, we find that the US digital - ad market will reach a programmatic «tipping - point»: For the first time this year, programmatic transactions will be a majority (52 %) of non-search digital - ad spend.

According to 2016 estimates gathered by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, the United States was responsible for 36 % of the entire world's military spending.

Health and science professionals warn that budget cuts proposed by President Donald Trump could be devastating for future generations, potentially gutting spending on biomedical and environmental research.

In 2008, the National Institutes of Health spent $ 80 million on SCI research — about the same amount that went to inflammatory bowel disease — compared with $ 5.6 billion for cancer and $ 3.6 billion for infectious diseases.

Some of Trump's proposals would slash funding for the National Institutes of Health by $ 1.23 billion, Bloomberg reports, and could bring research spending levels back to their level in 2000.

If I can get into the flow for three or four hours, then my work is done; the latter half of the day can be spent reading and researching.

The good news is that while hiring someone like Weiss can save you or your employees from spending the time to conduct research on your competitors, you can also employ several techniques to get the job done virtually for free.

Even after the proposed cut, agriculture would remain the largest spending area, with deeper cuts pencilled in for infrastructure investment in the bloc's poorest regions as well as research.

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Goyer said her research has shown that some grandparents did cut back on spending for their grandchildren as a result of the weak economy.

Novo said obesity drugs will account for more than one third of its overall research and development spend this year, up from around 10 percent five years ago.

He spent five years researching and developing prototypes for his first Dyson vacuums before they were ready for the world.

He noted that young blockchain projects like Tezos typically can't afford to spend «millions and millions» for legal research into every country and, in the case of the U.S., every state.

In a world of digital transactions, however, you have «no real feel for what you're spending,» says Bloch, who did research in behavioral finance at the University of Florida before embarking on a career that has included turns as a corporate accountant, personal finance video - blogger and founder of a social media marketing company.

Now, this is an election year and spending for science research, among other things, is on the Tea Party chopping block.

Not until after I took a major risk in my career of quitting my job as a banker and spending two years researching and writing my second book did my mentor take me under his wing and open up for me a valuable stream of knowledge, people and opportunities that have inspired my journey ever since.