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Our Love-Hate Relationship With Pharmaceuticals

Matthew Edlund, M.D. | Posted 10.31.2011

Read More: Pharmaceutical Companies, Drug Ads, Drugs, Malpractice Lawsuits, R&D, Efficacy, Medical Side Effects, Healthy Living Body, Health Care, Big Pharma, Healthy Living News

How did we get into this mess that produces untold suffering, impedes effective health care, and costs our economy sacks of bullion and lost productivity?

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Patently Absurd or: How to Go From the World's Best Patent System to Worse-Than-Most in a Single Step

Gary Lauder | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Inventions, Patents, Small Business, America Invents Act, Patrick Leahy, R&D, Invention, Business News

Congress is responding to the companies who can afford to lobby and not bothering to seek the opinions of entrepreneurial inventors -- for whom the patent system was created over 200 years ago by a single sentence in the Constitution.

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How Will G.O.P.'s House Budget Affect Clean Tech?

Joshua Freed | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Clean Technology, Clean Energy Economy, Clean Energy, Nuclear Power, House Republicans, R&D, Economic Growth, Apra, Southern Company, Green News

If House Republicans follow through on their pledge to cut 20% of all non-defense discretionary spending, what might that mean for America's ability to compete in the $2 trillion clean energy market?

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Upward Spiral Instead of a Downward One

Stan Sorscher | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lesser America, Sweatshop Labor, Tax Incentives, Sweatfree Procurement, Lowest Possible Prices, Industrial Policy, Maximum Possible Trade, R&D, Foreign Direct Investment, Fair Trade, Free Trade, Globalization, Economic Recovery, Business News

When I was young, the purpose of public policy was to raise our standard of living. Not so much, anymore. Now, public policy is designed to make busin...

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Taxing Carbon As Part of Responsible, Progressive Fiscal Policy

David Roberts | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Deficit, Politics, Cap and Trade, Conservatives, Carbon Tax, Progressives, Carbon Pricing, Climate and Energy, Public Investment, R&D, Green News

Despite conservative hysteria about the effects of a carbon price on the economy, the fact is that the amounts of money in question aren't that big in the context of the federal budget, much less the U.S. economy.

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Chu: Will America Miss Its "Sputnik Moment" on Energy?

David Ferris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stephen Chu, Obama Cleantech Strategy, Doe, US China Competition, Cleantech, Sputnik Moment, 1957, Arpa-E, Energy Department, President Obama, R&D, Energy Secretary, China, National Press Club, Green News

America is at a "Sputnik moment," Energy Secretary Stephen Chu said today. The government's next moves will determine whether the country leads the clean-tech race -- or loses it to China.

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Why Innovation Isn't Just Another Buzz Word

Dean Garfield | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Innovation, R&D Tax Credit, Faces of Innovation, Technology, Wi-Fi, America, High-Tech, R&D, Technology News

The nation's drive to continue to invest in R&D is stalling at a time when such investment is most needed to keep up with our global competitors. The message? R&D and innovation matter.

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Small Business Jobs Act: Real Value to Small Manufacturers

Brandon Edwards | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Small Business, Tax Credit Company, Tax Incentive, Small Business Jobs Act, Tax Credit, Amt, R&D, Carryback, Tax Incentives, Small Business Advice, Alternative Minimum Tax, Domestic Manufacturing, Small Business Tax Advice, Business News

Manufacturers with revenues under $50 million should pay close attention to the Small Business Jobs Act, particularly the elimination of the Alternative Minimum Tax barrier regarding business tax credits.

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It's Time to Make R&D Tax Credit Permanent, Assure U.S. Remains World's Top Innovator

Brandon Edwards | Posted 05.25.2011

It's time to put questions about the future availability of the R&D credit to rest so that companies will stop discounting its value and take full advantage of it as a key driver of innovation.

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Grow, Baby, Grow

Stephan B. Tanda | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy, Congress, Green Collar Economy, Carbon Emissions, Dsm, Agriculture, Energy Security, Washington DC, Sustainable Agriculture, Bipartisan, Gulf Oil Spill, Green Energy, Stephan Tanda, Plastics, Politics, Senate, Biotechnology, Biomass, Carbon Tax, Bio Fuel, Oil Spill, Green-Collar Jobs, Chemical, Sarah Palin, Emission Caps, Oil, Green Economy, Climate Change, Job Creation, R&D, World Economic Forum, Climate Bill, Politics News

Who could forget Sarah Palin's famous line during the 2008 presidential campaign: "Drill, baby, drill!" With the current environmental and economic di...

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UPDATE: Watch Our Winner On GMA Health! HuffPost Living's 'Total Energy Makeover' (VIDEO)

Good Morning America | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: The Balanced Life, Ashley Koff, Huffpost Energy Makeover, Energy Makeover, Health Tips, Wellness, Rd, Marissa Campise, Video, Healthy Living News

Here at HuffPost Living, we believe the real energy crisis is the one in YOU. So, we asked our readers to tweet about how their own personal energy cr...

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The Seeds of Industrial Policy

Harry Moroz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Office of Science and Technology Policy, Industrial Policy, R&D, Economy, Recovery, Business News

Recent less bad unemployment and GDP numbers have brought on an unreasoned optimism about the economy.

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The US-India Business Council Comes of Age

Sunil Chacko | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Minister Anand Sharma, Secretary Gary Locke, Ron Somers, Pepsico, Greg Kalbaugh, Indra K. Nooyi, US-India Business Council, Pfizer, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Raj Gandesha, David Simmons, Kamal Nath, Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, Ustr-Ron-Kirk, Dua Consulting, Phrma, David Mulford, Azim Premji, Doha Round, Rajiv Gandhi, Wto, White and Case LLP, Rahul Gandhi, Wipro, Indian Patents Act, Section 3(D), R&D, Padma Lakshmi, World News

The overflow crowd at the US-India Business Council's "Synergies Summit" emphasized how positively different the Council has become from even a dozen years ago.

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Building a National Innovation Movement

Gary Shapiro | Posted 05.25.2011

Will we step boldly into the new economic reality with a plan for creating jobs? Or will we look to unsustainable government protections that will force the US to take a backseat in the new era?

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Healthcare Abducted

Dr. Jeffrey McCombs | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Exercise, President, Drugs, Life Force, Drug Sales, Congress, Nutrition, Healthcare, Big Pharma, Diet, Government, Physicians, McCombs Plan, Drug Lobby, LifeForce Plan, Unemployment, Weight Loss, Pharmaceutical, Health, Insurance, Americans, R&D, Quality of Life, Healthy Living News

Mainstream healthcare in America has been abducted by the pharmaceutical and insurance companies. As profits have moved to the center stage, patient c...

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Left Behind

Patrick Barry | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Europe, John McCain, Science & Technology, Cern, Particle Collider, Taxes, Chicago, Iraq, Obama, Mccain, R&D, Bush, Omnibus, Fermilab, Politics News

By Pat Barry and Hanna Lundqvist It's easy to look at science as an apolitical issue, something apart from partisan discord. But today's news of the...

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Who's Your Economic Daddy?

Robert D. Atkinson, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Keynesian Economics, Robert Rubin, John McCain Economic Policy, Joseph Schumpeter, Economic Policy, Economy, Supply-Side Economics, Obama Economic Policy, Innovation, Technology, Rubinomics, R&D, Business News

Virtually all policy makers involved in economic policy subscribe to a particular economic doctrine, even if they may not be aware of which "camp" they are in.

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