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Feb 8 | Application Notes
Patent valuation is one of the trickiest tasks a company can face, according to patent law expert David Wanetick with The Business Development Academy, who has written a primer on how valuation—and vulnerability—can affected by many factors.
Feb 2 | News
Y-Carbon Inc., the winner of a 2009 R&D 100 Award for its Tunable Nanoporous Carbon, has recently been awarded a National Science Foundation SBIR phase I grant in the amount of $150,000 for scaling up production of its carbon nanomaterials. Y-Carbon, Inc. will occupy a new 2,000 square foot facility in Bristol, UK for its pilot plant. In the past two years, Y-Carbon has successfully transitioned from producing milligram quantities using methods developed at a Drexel University lab to manufacturing tens and hundreds of grams of material without performance degradation.
Jan 11 | News
The stimulus package passed in 2009 by Congress may help shovel-ready community wind projects move ahead, according to a new report by Mark Bolinger, a scientist at Berkeley Lab. Bolinger analyzed the impact of two new incentives for wind power that were included in the Recovery Act.
12/7/2009 | News
Our eyes would tell us that funding for medical research finds itself now at a kind of triple witching hour. Financial, political and social assumptions that have held sway for the last half century are expiring simultaneously and the world economy is in a deep recession. Biomedical investigators are left wondering where new funding will come from in a financial system that may be years in recovery.
7/30/2009 | News
At Microsoft's research center in a leafy lane in India's tech capital, a new generation of researchers are being groomed half a world away from the software giant's sprawling headquarters in Seattle.
7/27/2009 | New To Market
Biotechnology leapt ahead as the biggest recipient of U.S. venture capital money in the second quarter, but first-time venture investments in companies overall dropped to a 15-year low, a trade association reported.
6/9/2009 | Featured Articles
A recession, stimulus, new administration, continuing resolutions, and globalization effects have altered the picture of R&D spending from just six months ago.
2/23/2009 | Featured Articles
Despite the current economic downturn, independent research organizations remain optimistic. For the tenth consecutive year, the editors of R&D Magazine interviewed the CEOs of the leading independent R&D laboratories in the U.S. to determine the challenges and opportunities they face.
2/1/2008 | Featured Articles
An internal Battelle survey draws upon the views and experiences of staff who are closely involved with the conduct of research that supports a wide range of government and industrial clients.
2/1/2008 | Featured Articles
The U.S. research and development environment is being shaped in 2008 by a myriad of economic, political, and technical factors.