Led diverse global research teams, and strategically developed business initiatives resulting in cost reduction initiatives, and improved efficiency for
noted research institute.
Not exact matches
While the policy
notes that «New York's legal code is relatively accessible compared to other states,» it suggests that the state commit to including its laws on a platform such as America Decoded, adopting the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau's eRegs tool to make the laws more accessible, and
instituting an «open by default» policy in the area of IT purchasing, data and
research.
Participants also
noted that staff scientists are much more common at
research institutes in other countries, such as Germany's Max Planck
Institutes, where grants to institutions rather than to individual investigators are a common funding mechanism.
One agency that does demand such information is the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which sponsored Preston Brown's
research at Texas Tech; it
instituted these requirements in the aftermath of the explosion there, as the CSB report
notes.
That the Parliament recognises that contract
research staff in Scotland's universities and
research institutes are one of the most significant assets in Scotland's knowledge economy;
notes that more than 90 % of such staff are employed on insecure fixed term contracts, resulting in a systematic failure to properly exploit our science and social science base to the benefit of the Scottish economy and society; further
notes that this highly educated human resource, comprising graduate, postgraduate and postdoctoral level workers, is subject to constant wastage, to the detriment of Scotland's universities and economic potential; and believes that the Scottish Executive should act with clarity, urgency and determination to secure a complete overhaul of the management of the contract
research workforce with a view to eliminating the current insecurity and wastage and establishing a radical new approach in partnership with higher education employers and representatives of the
research staff.
Of
note, due to increased media, regulatory, and public scrutiny,
research institute and investigator reputations and funding depend as much on perceptions of integrity as on integrity itself.
The Kavli Foundation was established in December 2000 by its founder and benefactor, Fred Kavli, a prominent California business leader and
noted philanthropist whose foundation is currently actively involved in establishing major
research institutes at leading universities throughout the United States and in Europe and Asia.
As I
noted in the Social Justice Report 2006, there is also still much to be gained through partnerships between organisations that deal with questions of human rights as part of their daily business, whether those be Indigenous organisations,
research institutes and universities, Indigenous legal and medical services and the broader non-government sector.