He said that the cabinet had begun exploring ways to use blockchains in the government, with a particular interest in how it could be used in the disbursal
of government research grants.
Other skeptics are subjected to demands that they be imprisoned, loss of jobs, and loss
of government research grants.
Nonetheless, the film's sections exploring how nuclear technology became demonized, from the abandonment of the completed Shoreham plant on Long Island to the shutdown
of government research on a next generation of plant designs, are informative and convincing.
Even if it did, the trajectory
of government research on this is in the opposite direction.
A new group
of government research funders from around the world announced today that it will try to find common ground on two big issues in its inaugural year: defining research integrity and promoting open access to scientific information.
We may never know, but someone convinced the U.K.'s Business Secretary Vince Cable, who is in charge
of government research spending, that science is worth protecting.
On January 11, President Bush's science advisor John H. Marburger III, who oversees the federal scientific enterprise as director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), issued a memo instructing the heads
of all government research organizations to establish «appropriate policies to acknowledge more than one principal investigator (PI) when there is more than one collaborating investigator working on a Federally - funded research project,» according to a White House news release.
Exhaustively sourced and researched, Shulman's book leaves no doubt that the integrity
of government research is under attack.
Massachusetts, with its many high - tech firms and university - backed start - up companies, is a beneficiary
of government research support aimed at economic development.
Today, the scenario is much improved, she says; India has a reasonable science budget and a number
of government research institutes.
Not exact matches
While it received approval to dig a two - mile test tunnel beneath the headquarters
of Musk's space travel company, SpaceX, in Hawthorne, California, the Boring Company will have to convince a number
of local
governments that its tunnels will be useful in order to conduct enough
research and development to make an operational tunnel network a reality.
«Reports that the Saudi
government is planning to dilute its reform plans may be the first sign that the power and influence
of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is starting to wane and that broader opposition to reform is building,» Jason Tuvey, Middle East economist for Capital Economics, wrote in a
research note.
According to
research commissioned by Upwork, more than one in three U.S. workers are now freelancing, and in the UK,
government stats show that an increasing number
of people are opting to be self - employed.
And featuring presentations from: - Taeho Bark, Former Minister for Trade
of the Korean
Government - Chris Rodwell, CEO, Chamber
of Commerce and Industry WA - Gordon Flake, CEO, Perth USAsia Centre - Stephen Smith, Former Minister for Defence and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Perth USAsia Centre - Jeffrey Wilson, Head
of Research, Perth USAsia Centre - Darren Levy, TradeStart Adviser, Chamber
of Commerce and Industry WA
Government investments in
research and technology can help fuel innovation — and hugely successful companies can arise as a result
of that innovation.
And he or she must be supported by a senior political leader who serves as a public sector catalyst to build coalitions
of governments, workers and training and
research institutions and help to pitch investment proposals to head office decision - makers.
The company was in the midst
of negotiating a new round
of financing and awaiting a cheque from the federal
government's Scientific
Research and Experimental Development program — both
of which eventually came through.
Last fall General Fusion made presentations at the World Energy Congress in Daegu, South Korea, and at workshops hosted by the Chinese Academy
of Physics and the U.S.
government's Advanced
Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA - E).
Mona Siddiqui, chief data officer at the U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services commented that in tackling the issue the
government was still struggling to get various agencies (mostly their lawyers)-- FDA, CMS, CDC — to unify around definitions
of basic terms like «
research.»
The project brings together scholars
of media and communications,
government and international relations, physics, philosophy, linguistics, and medicine, and is affiliated with the Sydney Social Sciences and Humanities Advanced
Research Centre (SSSHARC), the Sydney Environment Institute and the Sydney Democracy Network.
Research shows that we live in a time where consumers are increasingly distrustful
of the
government.
Western Australia has been allocated $ 21 million for
research as part
of the federal
government's $ 363 million national funding package.
Carsten Nickel, deputy director
of research at Teneo Intelligence, argued that May's position in
government remained «too weak» to allow her to make any major announcements on Friday.
«Macron has tried to strike a fine political balance to maximize his chances
of building a majority, while making sure the new
government has enough competent figures to launch reforms,» Antonio Barroso, deputy director
of research at Teneo Intelligence, said in a note.
The Conference Board notes that the federal
government has placed great emphasis in improving Canada's innovation performance for years, most directly in the 2012 budget's revamping
of how $ 3.5 billion is doled out to firms under the Scientific
Research and Experimental Development program.
«It is also a tacit admission that her
government needs to improve the atmosphere around the Article 50 negotiations,» Mujtaba Rahman, Europe director
of political risk consultancy Eurasia Group, said in a
research note.
Dunderdale said the federal
government would cover $ 280 million
of the investment for
research and marketing, while the province will kick in the rest.
Over the past few sessions, we've seen fairly consistent rises across European
government bond markets and that's spilled over to the U.S.» said Anthony Valeri, senior vice president
of fixed income
research at LPL Financial.
Here's what Curry and the Globe shared from the conclusion
of the final report on the focus groups: «When asked, there was strong support for the
government offering subsidies to support innovation, rather than providing tax cuts or investments, particularly for smaller organizations,» states the final report summarizing the
research.
Gekko Systems co-founder Elizabeth Lewis - Gray has been appointed chair
of a new «mining growth centre», which is part
of a $ 189 million federal
government initiative designed to encourage commercially - focused
research and development activity.
«Private companies will ultimately develop these energy breakthroughs, but their work will rely on the kind
of basic
research that only
governments can fund,» Gates said in a statement.
Oceanic data is valuable, but for decades the only way to study the world's hostile waters was to deploy a stationary buoy, launch a satellite into space, or send a
government research vessel that runs hundreds
of thousands
of dollars a day to operate — on top
of its initial price tag
of hundreds
of millions
of dollars.
In 2005, the
government's National
Research Council
of Canada published a paper on how to make the cubicle a better workspace.
Generous daycare subsidies might be the smartest thing
governments can do: Extensive
research shows the most effective way to increase the number
of women taking part in the economy is to ensure reliable, affordable child care.
This sentiment was reflected elsewhere; a Nanos
research survey showed 48 %
of Canadians felt the country was headed in the right direction and a healthy majority believed Harper's
government was doing an average job, at least.
The U.S. also suffers from an undersupply
of farm workers, which is much worse than the shortage
of skilled workers afflicting Silicon Valley, says Craig Regelbrugge, vice president
of government relations and
research for the association.
Less than 10 %
of LGBT - owned businesses currently work as contractors for state and local
government, according to NGLCC
research, although 80 % say they would like that opportunity.
But Lesko's lists pertain mostly to small business: you'll find information on agencies that give development assistance to expanding companies, economic reports that regional Federal Reserve banks will send you,
government surplus - property auctions, whom to ask about overseas selling, how to find financial data on a company or franchisor, where to apply for
research grants — in sum, information on the offerings
of nearly every federal, state, and local bureaucracy in the country.
About half
of the company's $ 2.7 million in revenue comes from the federal
government, with law, marketing
research, and life sciences firms responsible for the rest.
Moynihan, at the time a sociologist and
research assistant at the U.S. Labor Department, called for more
government action to improve the economic prospects
of black families.
Meet Victoria Tifft, president and CEO
of ClinicalRM, a Hinckley, Ohio - based
government - contract medical -
research firm.
While the Obama administration put commercial leasing on hold, then, elsewhere in the federal
government people have been feverishly
researching ways to facilitate the development
of America's oilsands and oil shale.
But as if to advertise its success and thumb an unwrinkled nose at the
government, in early November Allergan announced plans to build a US$ 12 - billion
research facility in New Jersey, a state with a big pharmaceutical sector hurt by the recession — and home to lots
of rich housewives.
With the help
of subcontractor Southwest
Research Institute, in San Antonio, OLI convinced the federal
government that it could save U.S. companies $ 75 billion a year and bring in an additional $ 10 billion in improved productivity.
Japanese
government data that was translated for Business Insider by Dr. Nori Katagiri, an assistant professor
of political science at Saint Louis University and the inaugural visiting
research fellow for the JASDF Air Staff College, shows that China has dramatically increased its naval and aviation activity since 2012 — prior to which there was virtually no activity.
Should
governments pull the plug on megaprojects like ITER, it wouldn't stop private - sector players like Burnaby, B.C. - based General Fusion Inc., a year - old startup by former Creo Inc. managers that has so far attracted about half the $ 50 million in venture capital and federal
research funds it says it needs to demonstrate a kind
of «magnetized target fusion» by 2013.
Government agencies are an invaluable source
of market
research, most
of it free.
Professor Poole is one
of a six - member committee appointed to review collaboration between Australia's public universities and publicly funded
research agencies, as part
of the Federal
Government's higher education reform package.
Secondary
research involves gathering statistics, reports, studies, and other data from organizations such as
government agencies, trade associations, and your local chamber
of commerce.
The labs
of large, multinational companies and academic
research efforts at major universities or
governments are great at churning out innovations that become the basis for startups.