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China's Military: Here We Are!

Christopher Burgess | Posted 05.10.2013 | Politics
Christopher Burgess

Do we listen to the DoD or to the PRC government and Senior Colonel Wang XinJun, a researcher at the Academy of Military Sciences in Beijing, who recently stated, "The Chinese government and armed forces have never sanctioned hacking activities"?

So You Want Green Energy, New Medicines and Flying Cars? You Need the Federal Government

Robert D. Atkinson, Ph.D. | Posted 04.10.2013 | Technology
Robert D. Atkinson, Ph.D.

What the "stagnationists" seem to forget or ignore is that over the last 30 years the federal government has been dramatically underinvesting in research and development. The U.S. ranks just eighth among OECD countries in R&D as a share of GDP.

If Ideas Are the Seeds of Innovation...

Robert F. Brands | Posted 03.24.2013 | Business
Robert F. Brands

If ideas are the seeds of innovation, idea management is the formalization of the processes involved in gathering, sharing, analyzing and executing the ideas generated within an organization and its collaborative networks.

About Leadership: Materiality and R&D

Bernie Bulkin | Posted 02.26.2013 | Business
Bernie Bulkin

Corporations often look at products in a company like 3M, and their R&D process, and think, oh, look how successful that process is in bringing forth innovation; we should copy what they do. But the process is usually a total mismatch.

PCAST Report: The Future of U.S. Research

James M. Gentile | Posted 02.18.2013 | Science
James M. Gentile

Increased and predictable funding and incentives for research and development are essential, as is a workforce skilled at filling the resulting jobs. But it's also important that America's approach to research shift from safe and incremental research to the "high-risk, high-reward" research.

Note to Management: R&D Is Not Production

Gil Laroya | Posted 01.21.2013 | Business
Gil Laroya

R&D folks need the freedom to play, to innovate, to grow the next big product. This cannot and will never happen if an R&D engineer is spending eight hours a day, five days a week, filling out forms and reports instead of developing products.

Eroding Our Foundation

Robert D. Atkinson, Ph.D. | Posted 12.16.2012 | Politics
Robert D. Atkinson, Ph.D.

Reducing the budget deficit is important, but it should not and does not have to come at the expense of growth-inducing investments in areas like federal support for R&D.

Innovation: Supporting the 'R' in R&D

Robert F. Brands | Posted 12.10.2012 | Business
Robert F. Brands

Research ensures companies are making strides towards achieving breakthrough innovations in the long run. Without this kind of "R" attitude there would be no light bulb.

Generating Antibiotic Incentives Now: GAIN -- Or Just Greed

Robert Weissman | Posted 08.06.2012 | Healthy Living
Robert Weissman

The World Health Organization's Director-General recently warned of the growing challenge of antibiotic resistance in the starkest terms. Responding to this challenge, existing antibiotics must be conserved and novel antibiotics developed.

Our Love-Hate Relationship With Pharmaceuticals

Matthew Edlund, M.D. | Posted 10.31.2011 | Healthy Living
Matthew Edlund, M.D.

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?

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 | Business
Gary Lauder

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.

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

Joshua Freed | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Joshua Freed

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?

Upward Spiral Instead of a Downward One

Stan Sorscher | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Stan Sorscher

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...

Taxing Carbon As Part of Responsible, Progressive Fiscal Policy

David Roberts | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
David Roberts

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.

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

David Ferris | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
David Ferris

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.

Why Innovation Isn't Just Another Buzz Word

Dean Garfield | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Dean Garfield

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.

Small Business Jobs Act: Real Value to Small Manufacturers

Brandon Edwards | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Brandon Edwards

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.

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

Brandon Edwards | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Brandon Edwards

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.

Grow, Baby, Grow

Stephan B. Tanda | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Stephan B. Tanda

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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Good Morning America | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

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...

The Seeds of Industrial Policy

Harry Moroz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Harry Moroz

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

The US-India Business Council Comes of Age

Sunil Chacko | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Sunil Chacko

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.

Building a National Innovation Movement

Gary Shapiro | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Gary Shapiro

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?

Healthcare Abducted

Dr. Jeffrey McCombs | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Dr. Jeffrey McCombs

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

Left Behind

Patrick Barry | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Patrick Barry

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...