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Today, Dr. Keith Yamamoto, Chair of the Coalition for the Life Sciences, issued a strong statement in response to Federal District Court Judge Royce Lamberth’s preliminary injunction blocking President Obama’s 2009 executive order expanding funding for human embryonic

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Improving the US's Innovation Ecology - 6/10/09

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Dr. William Wulf
University of Virginia

There is an ecology of interacting laws, regulations and institutions that are intended to support innovation – a traditional strength of the U.S. Unfortunately, the current elements of that ecology were designed a long time ago for the technologies that existed at that time and are not well suited to the technologies of today and tomorrow. This talk explores the nature of the problem and some possible solutions.