Policymakers must prioritize investment in green energy research and development.

Worldwide, total annual investment in biomedical research is about 110 billion.

It also houses the SABB Investment Research Center and Microsoft Innovation Center .

This has included significant investment in knowledge, research and evidence based practice.

This is an area that continues to need more investment and research.

Additional resources will make possible expansion of research and development and pre investment activities in Africa.

At the same time, deregulation and competitive forces in the energy industry have led to private sector research and development investment being redirected from longer term, basic research towards low risk, market oriented research.

The past 40 years have demonstrated the remarkable return on investment to be gained in collaborative scientific research.

Either way, CCS will require significant investment in further research and development before it becomes a viable technology.

In the eurozone, for the most part, national governments separately choose investment levels in infrastructure, education, research, and technology.

In 2005, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies looked closely at government funded research addressing the environmental, health, and safety impact of nanotechnology. Investment in highly relevant research was low in the United States, it was only an estimated 1 of the 1.1 billion federal investment in nanotechnology research and development.

New research for the project by John Hoddinott of the International Food Policy Research Institute and Peter Orazem of Iowa State University focuses on an investment of 3 billion annually.

Indeed, research investment has plummeted since the 1980 s and has actually not increased since, even among Kyoto participating countries.

It is widely acknowledged that the high current level of investment in pharmaceutical research is yielding too few substantive discoveries.

It also stems from an us and them mentality that similarly permeates research at the top Wall Street investment houses.

A more broad based rural development required increased investment in rural roads and the development of research and extension services.

As with any large investment, it can be emotionally difficult to abandon a line of research when it isn't working out.

The Commission can promote research into the economic benefits, including the investment appeal that strong trade unions can bring to countries.

That investment, primarily from the private sector, has been fostered through a programme of State sponsored education, research and financial incentives.

The latest World Investment Report referred to the level of investment by pharmaceutical TNCs in Brazil but showed how only a few of these firms actually invested in research and development in the country.

However, for China to succeed, higher investment in research and development, together with a fundamental overhaul of the educational system, is essential.

As with medical research, early innovations will not reap significant financial rewards, so there is no strong incentive for private investment today.

Research networks or consortia can provide opportunities for cross sector information sharing and collaboration without requiring a major investment by individual parties.

In the case of Africa such integration is a means of encouraging trade, investment, and research and development cooperation among African countries.

Growing numbers of environmental investment funds are creating a favourable business climate for companies that research, produce and market environmentally sound technologies.

At the same time, tax laws have been revised to make investors wealthier in the near term, discouraging long term investment in research.

But there also is some evidence that innovation is slowing perhaps the result of reduced investment in research in the past five years.

Countries that are experiencing significant agricultural growth, such as Brazil and Thailand, have benefited from public sector investment in research and infrastructure development.

By 2006 Mexico must substantially increase its staff devoted to research and technological development, as well as its investment in infrastructure and laboratories.

The Government to provide the resources for the sectoral, joint and institutional funds for boosting federal investment in experimental research and development (IDE).

Another delegation from a developed country also stressed that studies should be undertaken on the qualitative impact of foreign direct investment, linking foreign direct investment to technology transfers, know how, research and other important economic variables.

Beyond avoidable suffering and death, failure to report research also slows the pace of scientific discovery. It is widely acknowledged that the high current level of investment in pharmaceutical research is yielding too few substantive discoveries.

To that end, we underline the need for measures to increase investment in agricultural research, including modern technologies, natural resources management and capacity building.

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That means greater investment in crop research to produce more robust and higher yielding varieties, as well as making more irrigation, pesticides, and fertilizer available.

If it is led into a more adventurous strategy, its sustained policy of research and heavy investment in up market steel products may be weakened.

Such countries, victims of the perverse interplay between population growth and primary production, have been marginalized in terms of investment flows, trade and technological research.

15. Governments of Asian countries in particular are characterized by a high level of investment in education, especially technical education, and technological research and development.

15. Invites Member States, in particular developed countries, to increase financial support flows for research, advisory and information work as it relates to foreign investment

UNDP apos s primary role in the Facility is the development and management of capacity building programmes, pre investment activities, technical assistance and targeted research.

In the poorer countries, such as India, most of this investment is on government account, but the wealthier countries, such as Japan, have considerable private corporate investment, often in close cooperation with the Government, in both research and training.

This investment pays off wonderfully, with research centers such as the International Rice Research Institute and the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre providing the high yield seeds and innovative farming strategies that together triggered the Asian Green Revolution.

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Investment promotion, foreign direct investment, transfer of technology.

Instead, the panel recommended focusing investment on research into climate engineering as a short term response, and on non carbon based energy as a longer term response.