Sentences with phrase «of research spending»

At several large research universities, including Johns Hopkins, the University of Washington, the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard, federal dollars comprised 80 percent of research spending.

But if MOST were to relinquish control of research spending, «that's a big deal,» says Cao Cong, an expert on Chinese science at the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom.

«Chinese media are reporting that the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) may hand control of the lion's share of research spending to as - yet - unidentified «independent institutes,» the state - run People's Daily reported on 21 October.»

As part of her research she spent «one of the best weeks of my life» learning how to sail a replica Viking ship on Roskilde fjord, Denmark.

Not exact matches

Viome recently hired Guruduth Banavar, the former head of cognitive computing at IBM Research who spent years working on Watson, to lead its A.I. efforts.

«The benefits of NFLX - produced original content including attractive economics and greater control are clear and we believe returns on original spend are high,» J.P. Morgan Securities (jpm) analyst Doug Anmuth said in a research note.

Research suggests people spend between 60 and 80 percent of their daily conversation gossiping.

«Legere spends a lot of time with the T - Mobile workforce, building morale and listening,» says Walt Piecyk, an analyst at BTIG Research who has followed T - Mobile throughout Legere's tenure.

So when I first heard about Chicago - based KnowledgeHound, I was pretty excited because I saw it as a SaaS startup that was addressing a large and important problem: the inefficiencies in the way corporations were spending billions of dollars on market research and surveys.

Part of the problem is that, compared to the company's competitors, Dell simply hasn't spent enough on research and development.

Major consumer products companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year constructing, assigning and fielding market research projects and then summarily reviewing and incorporating the survey and research results into proposals, pitches, and other internal presentations to a variety of audiences.

Plus, research and anecdotal evidence suggests that spending too much time gazing at perfectly curated profiles on Facebook, profiles that often eliminate all the warts and stresses of a person's real life, can knock your self - esteem.

However, new research suggests that the effects of unregulated social media use can also be seen in how we spend our money.

The governor of the central bank plays a significant role in the drafting of the institution's mandate and he spends a good chunk of his research budget investigating whether there are better ways to achieve price stability.

Pharma continues to be the most research - intense branch, though, with Merck, Roche, Eli Lilly, and AstraZeneca all spending between 21 % and 25 % of revenue on R&D.

«If your approach is to just buy a bunch of reports to see what's going on in the marketplace, that's not as likely to get you a return on your market research dollars as a specific need,» says Robert Rubenstein, who spent three decades in the market research business at Canadian corporate heavyweights Molson Breweries and TD Canada Trust before recently founding his own startup, Horizn.

Although Milkie's research — a large - scale, longitudinal study — didn't dispute the positive and necessary benefits of sharing meals or one - to - one time, it did find that the quantity of time parents spent with their little ones mattered little.

Dr. Robert Cialdani, who's spent his lifetime researching the «science of influence,» identifies «authority» as one of the six traits most likely to persuade people.

Many businesses spend tons of money in market research, but they tend to forget to include the most important factor to their customer acquisition and product development cycle — their customer's opinion.

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.

Spend a significant time researching the needs of your prototypical customer so you can solve their problems.

No brand wants to be the one that failed to ride a consumer wave because it wasn't willing to spend the equivalent of a rounding error in research costs.

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.

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.

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.

«Maybe he is getting more mellow,» said Schankerman, who has has spent a lot of time discussing his research on reforms needed in the patent system with Spangenberg.

Research shows that approximately 40 percent of everyday speech is spent telling other people what we think or feel — basically, talking about our subjective experiences.

Peter Warman, CEO of research firm Newzoo, says the number of hours gamers spent watching EA's FIFA 16 on Twitch in January increased by more than 80 % since last November, while the number of hours gamers watched NBA 2K16 videos on Twitch more than doubled in the same period.

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.

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.

But small businesses mean small investments, and corporate Canada contributes relatively little of total spending on research conducted at Canada's post-secondary institutions:

Canadian companies are funnelling a growing chunk of their research and development spending through the country's universities and colleges, with the total coming in at just under a billion dollars in 2013:

This has sparked serious concerns about the future of corporate spending on basic research and development, and not without good reason.

«The new numbers we're discussing today are extraordinary,» said U.S. Senator Bob Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat and sponsor of legislation signed by President Barack Obama to spend $ 1.3 billion on autism research and education through 2019.

She has spent years studying the science (research, studies, physiology, etc.) of how body language tells the story of what is going on inside someone's brain.

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.

«I think managers would do well to take this research [on the benefits of limiting how much time you spend checking email] to heart,» he said.

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.

In fact, research and consulting firm Gartner predicts that by 2017, a company's chief marketing officer will likely spend more of an organization's budget on technology than what's spent by its chief information officer.

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.

We'll have a good chance of success there, and then we'll spend part of the time exploring another area where we haven't got the research but think that the resources might be there.

A.T. Kearney research found that spending on big data hardware worldwide may grow at a compound annual growth rate of 30 % through 2018.

Features unique to the Pixel, such as the Google Assistant, the Pixel camera, and Daydream (Google's virtual reality headset, which works with the Pixel), plus the smartphone's deeper app integration, increased prominence of Android Pay, and improved computing power (compared to other Android devices), will ultimately lead to users spending more money on Android, according to the research note.

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.

In - store dining and prepared foods from grocery stores led to 2.4 billion food - service visits and $ 10 billion of consumer spending in 2015, according to a recent report by industry research firm NPD Group.

Furthermore, the Media Research Center found that during a two - week period in August, close to 80 % of CNN's Republican campaign coverage was spent discussing Donald Trump: 580 minutes out of a total of 747 minutes.

The United States, France, India and 17 other countries will announce they will double the $ 10 billion they collectively spend on clean energy research and development in the next five years, shining a spotlight on role of technology in any climate agreement reached in Paris.