To help change this, 16 institutions including Goldsmiths are being funded to develop the ImQ by a $3m research grant from the Imagination Institute, which is based at the University of Pennsylvania and supported by the John Templeton Foundation.
"What we're talking about is something that is about as sticky as sticky tape - it's not crazy glue," says Prof Kellar Autumn, who became intrigued by gecko adhesion after being funded to develop climbing robots by the US military.
The KSAL programs were funded to develop thought leaders, development practitioners and action researchers through leadership experiences and study grants for masters and doctoral degrees for emerging leaders and professionals from Southern Africa (Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Malawi, South Africa, Swaziland and Zimbabwe).
Of the seven announced so far, five are based in the south of England, including Kent, Surrey and Devon, though of those, Golf Tourism England runs trips across the UK, as does Gloucestershire-based Compass Holidays, which has been funded to develop its tourism app.
A total of 9 academic research centers, each with multiple criminal justice agency partners, were funded to develop and test integrated approaches to the treatment of offenders with drug use disorders.
A recent NSF EarthCube Integrative Activity called X-DOMES (Cross-Domain Observational Metadata for Enviro-Sensing) was funded to develop a community of participants and to build the necessary tools to enable role-based creation of SensorML with links to resolvable terms.
Since the implementation of the Health Promotion Policy in 2006, cities have been funded to develop physical activity interventions.
They opine that graduates of such programmes are subjected to western ethical views and ideologies and that the developing world is not funded to develop bioethics capacity based on its own thinking [ 23].
Right now the NIH is funding research to develop techniques to decode specific cancers so they can be targeted by new drugs that seek out and destroy only cancer cells.
And although we're a long way from a replicator, Nasa recently admitted that as part of a programme "to turn science fiction into fact" they are funding work to develop a 3D food printer.
"The government is funding Dyson to develop a new battery electric vehicle at their headquarters in Malmesbury, Wiltshire.
