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...The balance has shifted too far towards the private; while US business investment in R&D more than tripled between 1990 and 2020, federal public R&D spending was almost flat....
...It follows a period in which the firm built up a significant business auditing Chinese real estate groups: PwC has also acted for others that have struggled, such as Country Garden, Sunac, R&F Properties...
...Ispace sold itself to investors as a dynamic private-sector operator in the mould of Elon Musk’s SpaceX or Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin by talking of business opportunities on the Moon....
...So it turns out that for the same price as one of their Gulfstream private jets, space barons Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos could have sent a lander to the moon....
...He tells me the UK government’s R&D budget is approaching £20bn a year, and that private-sector R&D now exceeds public money roughly threefold....
...Vuitton has often looked outside the box of fashion for its collaborators — Kusama has created two collections, Jeff Koons one and Takashi Murakami several between 2003 and 2008....
...“The tax business has historically been a paper business,” Jeff Jones, chief executive of H&R Block, told me recently....
...mildewed mystics in ancient Britain), Netflix’s The Witcher (monsters vs Henry Cavill) and Amazon’s The Wheel of Time (Rosamund Pike in a wig), the last of which was reportedly commissioned at the behest of Jeff...
...There’s a strong focus on contemporary American music, too, represented by the premiere of Jeff Midkiff’s mandolin concerto From the Blue Ridge, orchestral work by Wynton Marsalis, a new commission from...
...The point, instead, is to go from being Robert Armstrong, journalist, to R.K. Armstrong, author of The Fall of the House of Lucre: A Tale of Greed, Sex and Accounts Receivable....
...Suri said more consolidation would be needed to compete against the disruption of new rivals building constellations in low earth orbit, such as Elon Musk’s Starlink, or Jeff Bezos’s planned Project Kuiper...
...Jeff Sabin and Andrew Curry, lawyers with Venable LLP, signed into the hearing in person representing a firm called Digital Augean, LLC....
...The EU-funded Centre for Space Technologies, which includes collaboration and R&D facilities, has been filled five years earlier than expected....
...Jeff Bezos pledged to give away most of his $124bn fortune during his lifetime. The Amazon founder commented: “The hard part is figuring out how to do it in a levered way. It’s not easy.”...
...Smart reads New money Billionaires like hedge fund tycoon Dan Och and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos have long sought refuge in Aspen....
...H&R Block once held a banking charter....
...Barron is leaving GSK to take up the top job at Altos Labs, a start-up reportedly backed by billionaires including Amazon founder Jeff Bezos....
...Once regulated, it forecasts turnover could rise to R$5.5bn by 2026. The big question is what the regulatory framework will look like....
...Both would presumably have been aware that the leaders of multiple large US institutions, most recently CNN’s longtime boss, Jeff Zucker, have resigned after failing to disclose romantic relationships with...
...Or perhaps it’s: “This will help the company accelerate its R&D and manufacturing expertise, pulling forward its cash flows by a few years.”...
...Behind the Spac-targeting short seller Seasoned Hollywood executives Harry Sloan and Jeff Sagansky may have kicked off the Spac party by taking DraftKings public in 2019, but they now have an unwanted guest...
...Richard Waters notes that Jeff Bezos is joining the changing of guard at a crunch time for Big Tech....
...Billionaire space race: advantage Branson Richard Branson has pulled ahead of rival billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos in the race to get to the edge of space first, by bringing forward his first trip...
...Next week we speak with the playwright Michael R Jackson, who wrote the wildly acclaimed Broadway musical Strange Loop. It won a Pulitzer in 2020, and it just recently won the Tony for Best Musical....
...It should be made clear that innovation is a responsibility of every manager, not just those in R&D....
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