The speed of funding for SSLPs was to some extent overwhelming, resulting in a somewhat slow start to the establishment of operational status.
While this was excellent news for breast cancer patients, it raises concern about the speed of funding approval for other agents and indications.
Paris appeared to be surprised by the speed of the fund proposal from Germany.
The shift to open access should increase the speed of publicly funded research and its exploitation by making the primary output, the published paper, more readily available.
One may expect that speed of drug funding decisions be influenced by the magnitude of clinical effect, the number of patients who could benefit from the treatment, and whether the treatment was curative or palliative.
The challenge for them, and for policy makers from Manila to Bogotá, is to find ways to deliver on this promise, both by enabling microfinancing groups to help speed the transfer of funds to remote villages at a lower cost and by providing a pool of working capital for microfinancing.
Despite the Guardian's repeated calls to Amref to speed up the transfer of funds to the Emorikikinos farmers' village saving and loan association, Amref has still taken five months to move the money from its HQ office in Nairobi, Kenya, to Katine, Uganda - Kenya's southern neighbour.
This is where declaring the opioid crisis a public health emergency under the Emergencies Act would make a genuine difference: it would speed up the procurement of funds for treatment programs that would otherwise get bogged down in parliamentary procedure.
Interagency funding issues "This agreement will increase the collaboration between UNICEF and World Bank and will increase the speed and effectiveness of funding and programmes.
Although academia and industry differ in many ways the speed of research, the methods of funding, and the asking of basic versus applied research questions ultimately, the two environments are more similar than they are different.
