Senators Joseph I. Lieberman, Democrat of Connecticut, and Orrin G. Hatch, Republican of Utah, have introduced a bill that they say would go beyond Project BioShield's incentives by providing tax breaks, patent extensions and liability protection to companies for work on countermeasures to biological, chemical and radiological weapons.
Discussion of the results needs to demonstrate thinking that goes beyond project mode and includes a hard look at how the intervention could go to scale and be sustained.
"We want the AU to go beyond trophy projects like this new headquarters," said Orwa. "We want the AU to ratify and implement policy declarations and instruments so that Africans can see tangible benefits.
When I catch up with Goldsworthy after our trip, he explains: 'What has evolved is a project that goes beyond art as an object to be looked at, to something that is part of a landscape to be lived in.' The land he is working on is largely abandoned: a region emptied by economic desperation.
For example, in Western Australia, government approval for new projects requires "net conservation benefits" that go beyond typical project-level mitigation [ 3- 5].
Even in countries possessing an integrated climate policy, this process is often overlooked or simplified and sometimes is overshadowed by environmental impact assessment activities that rarely go beyond investment project perspectives.
If they are to be an effective policy tool, physician workforce planning will need to go beyond simply projecting the traditional factors of population growth and ageing, and physician headcounts [ 8- 10], to include variables that affect both service requirements (population need) and availability [ 11- 13].
But experts say governments have to go beyond funding impressive projects, that a sustainable eco-system for innovation is what is needed.
EUDAT members work on a more broader idea of scientific data infrastructure standardization to order to go beyond one single project that culminated in an Europe-wide activity named as the Research Data Alliance (RDA) [12].
