Sentences with phrase «spending on basic research»

Gates hammered on points reported here for many years: that without a big, and sustained, boost in spending on basic research and development on energy frontiers, the chances of triggering an energy revolution are nil; that while the private sector and venture capital investors are vital for transforming breakthroughs into marketable products or services, they will not invest in the long - haul inquiry that's required to generate game - changing breakthroughs; that a 1 or 2 percent tax on carbon - emitting fuels could generate a large, steady stream of money for invigorating the innovation pipeline; that a declining emissions cap and credit trading system --- if it could survive America's polarized politics --- would have to raise energy costs far beyond what would be politically tenable to generate a similar scale of transformational activity.

However, only in 2008 to 2010 in the wake of the financial crisis, did industry increase its spending on basic research, and this may be simply an artifact of renewed attention by industry to R&D generally in that period.

In fact, industry spending on basic research again decreased in 2011.

Scientists are now worse off than ever and government spending on basic research is lower than in any comparable industrialised nation (O. 24 per cent of GDP in the UK, against 0.33 per cent in France and O. 4 per cent in the US).

The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) is proposing to trim spending on basic research by nearly 7 % as part of an overall downsizing.

Spending on basic research within the Department of Defense (DOD) will rise by 1.4 %, to $ 2.31 billion, under the spending bill.

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

A coalition of university organizations with a new Web site touting the benefits to the country from the $ 21 billion being spent on basic research via the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) hopes that the answer is no.

While sizable, that's still a small sum compared with the $ 32.7 billion that the U.S. government is expected to spend on basic research this year.

Not exact matches

Its task - mapping revealed that Pfizer's most highly skilled knowledge workers were spending 20 % to 40 % of their time on things like data entry, web research, basic spreadsheet analysis, and PowerPoint slides.

They are, therefore, reluctant to spend money on something as basic as keyword research.

I spent the next decade completing rigorous basic science research training: completing a high school summer internship, attending the University of Maryland, Baltimore County as a Meyerhoff Scholar, and completing my Ph.D. in the Stanford immunology program, where my work focused on the mechanisms regulating hematopoietic and leukemic stem cells.

The bill specifically requires NIH director Francis Collins to spend 90 % of the agency's budget on extramural activities, 10 % on intramural activities and at least 55 % on basic science, and instructs the agency to maintain at least 16,670 training research awards (a category intended for doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows).

The debate about whether the federal government should spend money on basic research instead of giving more to applied research is an old one, said Melinda Baldwin, a lecturer in the history of science at Harvard University.

However, Senator Ron Johnson (R - WI) had an opposing view: «I'd love to talk about spending more money on basic research.

Spending on basic agricultural research in the United States could grow significantly thanks to a massive farm bill that Congress approved overwhelmingly last week.

University lobbyists object to the changes in the set - asides for these programs, arguing that the money would be better spent on funding more basic research.

The U.S. Department of Defense proposes to spend $ 2 billion on basic research in 2011, an increase of $ 200 million, or 10 %, over its current spending level.

We need to increase the levels of spending on basic science, creating new knowledge, and make certain that the money is maximized, both in the direct costs of funding research and the indirect costs of the infrastructure, such as buildings and equipment.

Applied versus basic science — At the House science committee, several Republican lawmakers complained that DOE was putting too much emphasis on applied energy research in its spending plan for the 2016 fiscal year, which begins 1 October.

The House Committee on Appropriations» version of the so - called energy and water bill for fiscal year 2016, which begins 1 October, would boost spending by 0.6 % for DOE's basic research arm, the Office of Science, to $ 5.10 billion.

As the top Democrat on a spending panel that oversees several federal research agencies, Fattah has pushed successfully for greater federal investment in basic research and science education, with a special focus on neuroscience.

The federal R&D budget includes spending on both basic and applied research.

At the time of the National Academies» report, lobbyists thought that the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which received about half of the $ 32.3 billion the government spent this year on basic research, was in good shape.

The debate over targeted research versus basic research came to a head earlier this month when the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released a report advising the army on how to spend the money.

He was the first president since John F. Kennedy to do that, and if you read that speech, which is still on the web I believe — both at the Academy web site and my friend Ralph Cicerone, president of the National Academy of Sciences, is in the front row — and it's also on the White House web site — what you will find is although the president was clear about the practical applications of science and technology to our great challenges as I've mentioned, he probably spent two thirds of that talk talking about the importance of basic science; the importance of fundamental research in science and technology to our national well - being; and the importance of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education.

He spent his basic research career studying the mechanisms of steroid hormone action on the brain, behavior, and mental health, and the influences of the environment and stressors on those actions in laboratory rodents.

Since its inception in 2003, the SMA Foundation has spent more than $ 100M on basic, translational, and clinical research to accelerate progress towards finding a treatment for SMA.

Last year we spent # 386 million on your research, funding 4,000 researchers plus infrastructure and partnerships across the full breadth of basic, translational, clinical and population research.

Today, the SMA Foundation is the leading funder of SMA research worldwide — over $ 110M has been spent on basic, translational, and clinical research.

According to a report in 2012 by BMJ, a London based medical journal, for every dollar pharmaceutical companies spent on «basic research,» they put another $ 19 toward marketing and greasing doctor's palms.

And the eGuide is a 33 - page basic weight - loss eGuide, filled with science backed tips that I've spent months researching about the latest stuff on diet and exercise.

Follow these basic steps and you will see the fruitful results of the hours you spent on researching the right online training courses, in your learners» performance.

We [college and university librarians] see that many college freshmen are poorly prepared to conduct college - level research, requiring professors and librarians to spend more time than they should on basic skills.

«We see that many college freshmen are poorly prepared to conduct college - level research, requiring professors and libraries to spend more time than they should on basic skills.

They stated «We see that many college freshmen are poorly prepared to conduct college - level research, requiring professors and libraries to spend more time than they should on basic skills.

We [college and university librarians] see that many college freshmen are poorly prepared to conduct college - level research, requiring professors and librarians to spend more time than they should on basic skills.

The political tendency is to spend on development, while the report notes that breakthroughs come mainly from blue - sky basic research.

Defense and Energy: The military also has the world's largest budget for basic research and development, to the tune of some $ 75 billion a year (we spend about $ 1 billion a year on all energy research, as I pointed out the other day).

The ratio of spending on health research and basic research and development on energy is 30 to 1, he added.

Defense and energy: The military also has the world's largest budget for basic research and development, to the tune of some $ 75 billion a year (we spend about $ 1 billion a year on all energy research, as I pointed out the other day).

In e-mail messages and interviews, many other scientists said they supported the group's push for a greatly expanded effort in basic energy research but did not sign the letter because they differed on the appropriate amount to be spent or on some aspects of how such an initiative should be carried out.

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will spend $ 250 million to establish and operate two new Bioenergy Research Centers to accelerate basic research on the development of cellulosic ethanol and other biofuels from biomass, including biodiesel, biofuels for aviation, and biologically based hydrogen and other fuels from sResearch Centers to accelerate basic research on the development of cellulosic ethanol and other biofuels from biomass, including biodiesel, biofuels for aviation, and biologically based hydrogen and other fuels from sresearch on the development of cellulosic ethanol and other biofuels from biomass, including biodiesel, biofuels for aviation, and biologically based hydrogen and other fuels from sunlight.

Ultimately, a big increase in government spending on basic energy research will happen only if scientists can persuade the public and politicians that it is an essential hedge against potential calamity.

The answers to these questions are out there for those who are willing to spend more than a few hours on Google searches, and it is not constructive to give presentations on subjects without first doing such basic research.

Indeed this is the point (and it is one that Michael Tobis has spent many posts on - give us a good link Michael), climate research depends on basic physics and chemistry, to deny the first is to cast out the second, and then indeed, you are left claiming that you know nothing, nothing.

By contrast, the Kremlin - tied troll farm known as the Internet Research Agency alone spent an estimated $ 46,000 on Facebook ads, speaking to a basic financial asymmetry Russia used as a lever into the 2016 election.

So the basic advice recruiters and career coaches are giving is the same guidance they always give during dips in IT spending or employment: Make sure your skills are current; focus on the ones that can cut costs or increase revenue; and do your research to figure out not only which companies are hiring but which industries are expanding and increasing their reliance on technology.

You should understand the basics of the market and spend plenty of time doing research on it.