Commercial backing 'could impair academic influence.'(industrial sponsorship of academic researches)
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US life science researchers have found that high level of industrial sponsorship of academic researches may decrease academic and commercial productivity. Scientists receiving limited funds from industries show above average scientific performance. Increasing the participation of academic researchers beyond a level may increase costs and decrease benefits. Industrially sponsored scientists are more secretive with their results and are more likely to choose commercial research topics, than researchers without any sponsorship or with limited funds.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1996
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Block grant opposed for NIH clinical centre
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John Porter, Chairman of the House of Representatives appropriations subcommittee which handles the US National Institute of Health budget, is against a $310 million block grant from the 1997 budget for the entire funding of the new Clinical Research Center. Porter disagrees with the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) recommendations and proposes that the funds be allocated over a four-year period. Porter argues that OMB's fears of funding in installments as jeopardizing the construction are unfounded.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1996
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Biologists make plea to NIH to invest in supercomputer centre
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A group of biologists is calling on the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) to increase investment in high-performance computing. They have recommended that the NIH finance a single, central facility for the operation of a large 'teraflop' machine. Such machines are 100 times more powerful than existing supercomputers would allow the modelling of protein-protein recognition and self-assembly.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1999
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