However, for a government, the exact organization or sector through which the innovation arrives is irrelevant for realizing its economic returns.
The OECD suggested that countries that invested in fibre networks were likely to see the best economic returns in other areas.
Earlier this week, Times Higher Education ran a big story on the apparent decline in the relative economic returns to university education.
In fact, national support of longer-term research has evolved to an assumed national responsibility with the side effect that we are not carefully considering what makes these expenditures good investments for high economic returns.
The costs to find these patents, research their applicability, and then where appropriate negotiate licenses to even a small fraction of those patents, would vastly exceed the potential economic returns from most software applications.
Certainly Dr Brundtland's previous assembly of wise folk, the World Commission on Environment and Development, did much to persuade companies and countries that investing in sustainable development was not just good for the environment, but might yield economic returns too.
In his gloominess, Charlemagne missed an important point: the linguistic unification of Europe can yield economic returns in addition to the cultural and social ones enjoyed by those of us who speak English, whether or not it is our first language.
Some questions the market is asking now include: what happens if economic growth returns and energy is scarce?
We all hope that the economy picks up, the unemployment rate falls, and that economic growth returns to a more normal pace.
When economic growth returns one day to the U.S. and other industrialized nations, businesses will buy new PCs as they hire more people.
In a paper that will be published soon in the Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, he maintains that not only is past economic growth no guarantee of future stockmarket returns, but even future economic growth (could we but know it) is no guarantee of contemporaneous stockmarket returns except in the most transitory way.
We kept the part of the business I enjoyed and thought had the better long-term economic and psychological returns.
The fees as % of asset under management fell considerably during the recent economic downturn with returns across assets classes diminishing.
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If this argument about economic growth and stockmarket returns feels faintly familiar, it's because it is.
As the returns from economic reforms tend to be slow and the short-term adjustment costs high, the government should have adopted generous social compensatory and adjustment-assistance policies.
Over the past few years, the dollar has been strong mainly because foreign investors have been happy to finance America's external deficit, thanks to rapid economic growth and high returns, especially in its equity market.
Taking out demographic factors like covered plan employees living longer after retirement and just looking at overly optimistic economic input assumptions on portfolio returns should be sobering enough.
There has been much debate lately about the concept of "decoupling, " or the idea that international markets can deliver strong economic growth and robust equity returns in the face of a recession, or at least a very sharp slowdown in the U.S. In the short run, that may be wishful thinking.
Faster economic growth and higher stock market returns, therefore, can shrink the entitlement obligation.
Because there are no actual cuts in his budget, Ryan hopes that fiscal balance can be restored by 2040 only because he assumes that we achieve returns to the annual economic growth that are equal to levels averaged for much of the last century.
But it could result in lower returns moving forward should global economic conditions improve.
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Earnings, not economic growth, are key to stock returns, and right now the earnings yield on stocks is about 6.5% right around the historical average.
Chuan, though, has a big asset in his economic team, in which Tarrin Nimmanhaeminda returns as finance minister and former deputy PM Supachai Panichpakdi gets commerce.
But there seems to be broad consensus among industry observers that average returns on equity through the economic cycle will be in the low- to mid-teens henceforth, well down on the 20%-plus achieved before the current crisis.
At some point our society is going to be forced to choose between allowing this ongoing abuse of the ESA and paying the ever-increasing economic and societal price, or modifying the process of nominating species in a way that requires the employment of sound science, the consideration of economic and other societal impacts, and returns the law to its original, balanced intent.
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It calls into question whether economic growth has anything to do with stock returns.
But does past economic growth in fact imply greater future stockmarket returns?
To the contrary, savers, like everyone else, have an interest in maximizing economic growth, since that will also maximize returns on their investments.
The conventional wisdom is that high taxes on returns to capital are damaging to economic growth taxes on labour income not so much.
Now, some of the world's biggest funds, including Fidelity Worldwide Investment, are being lured by the returns on offer and a brighter economic picture throughout the region.
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