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 .

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Recent research has shown that nutrition can be a major catalyst of inclusive economic growth, with each dollar of investment yielding a return of 15 138 dollars.

Presented with more robust research infrastructures and professional opportunities in developed nations, many foreign trained students remain abroad, severely limiting the return on their home nation's investment.

John Kufuor, Ghana s president from 2001 to 2009, exemplified such leadership, boosting investment in agricultural research, farmer education, and infrastructure projects, such as roads, warehouses, and cold storage.

The aims will be to tackle the agricultural, environmental and socio economic effects of land degradation through a coordinated effort with investment, research and strategy, dissemination and partnerships.

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

Although grants are a nice source of funding for demonstration projects and research, only a for profit approach that attracts broader investment will ensure that this scheme catches on.

Moreover, Israel has failed to redress a dangerous imbalance however creative its economy may be, the burden of military expenditure is undermining its investment in education and scientific research.

One of the most important roles of an education investment bank lies in transforming the scattered strands of research and ideas related to financing global education into actual transactions.

Greater investment is needed in awareness raising, training, research and improved monitoring and reporting mechanisms, as is more regular and comprehensive reporting by Governments to monitoring and reporting bodies.

Small capitalization equity investments require frequent visits to companies for purposes of research as less information is provided by investment advisers and brokerage houses on these types of investments.

Over the past year, more than 50 economists prepared research on nearly 40 investment proposals in areas ranging from armed conflicts and natural disasters to hunger, education, and global warming.

However, as UNCTAD's past research has clarified, not all investment produces the same impact on development, nor are the benefits of FDI diffused in the host economy in all cases.

The country s rapid economic growth, strategic potential, huge internal market, and enormous investment in infrastructure, education, and research and development, as well as its massive military buildup, will see to that.

Life expectancy continues to decline investment in infrastructure, research, and education are stunted the economy is barely able to compete internationally and the social divide between poor and rich is deepening.

Adequate investment in education, in particular in universities and technical colleges, and in research institutions and the necessary infrastructure, is essential for keeping these institutions competitive and attractive to potential scientists.

There is, hence, an urgent need for a longer term investment for research and development of new insecticide products to address the issue of the dwindling arsenal of public health pesticides.

Whereas China, India, and others have enjoyed continuing economic growth and investment in research and innovative capacity, Europe is perceived as being on the brink of decline, economically as well as politically.

Mindless subsidies that we cannot afford will not create a green economy what will is investment in research and development to bring down costs, so that green energy eventually can outcompete gas.

Higher rates of economic growth could not be sustained without increased investment, especially in research and development which was crucial to boosting productivity while improving the quality of human capital and technology.