►To "foster scientific breakthroughs," "[r]esearchers need freedom and the flexibility that leads to serendipity, and they should be encouraged to take risks even if it leads to failure," concluded funding agency heads who gathered in Tokyo for the annual meeting of the Global Research Council (GRC), Normile wrote at ScienceInsider yesterday.
But the MPs concluded: "Funding has not kept pace in recent years with an increased risk of flooding from more frequent severe weather events, and the relatively modest additional sums to be provided up to 2020 will not be sufficient to plug the funding gap".
For this reason, the panel concludes, funding agencies should make sure the study can be done ethically in a proposed site.
The best recent example of this is Andreessen Horowitz who having invested heavily in PicPlz, passed on Instagram's later round because they concluded that "funding Kevin to compete with Dalton would be a violation of the original implicit commitment made to Dalton to not fund competitors to PicPlz".
Assessing the progress of Canadian healthcare policy research centres, Mekel and Shortt concluded that funding insecurity leads to disproportionate investment of centre resources into survival manoeuvres, such as undertaking renewal applications and searches for new funding sources, leaving fewer resources available for other centre endeavours.
The analysis, based on 2013 figures and published in the British Medical Journal, concluded real funding for the NHS would decline 1.4% this parliament.
However, the National Audit Office has previously concluded that funding fell 10% in real terms in the last parliament, when one-off emergency grants were excluded, and the government's own climate change advisers warned of a £500m hole in spending.
Technically, such vaccines are feasible, the group concluded, but funding will have to go up dramatically.
After speaking with both entrepreneurs and much internal discussion, we concluded that funding Kevin to compete with Dalton would be a violation of the original implicit commitment we made to Dalton to not fund competitors to PicPlz.
Dr. Lawrence had vowed to remain at Rutgers for at least two more years, until the university concluded its fund-raising campaign.
A recent BBC investigation identified a 1985 official CIA document which concluded: "Some funds that insurgent organizations are raising for relief operations, as a result of increased world publicity, are almost certainly being diverted for military purposes".
