research and the economy

BU biologist and peers find investing in wildlife monitoring and deforestation could prevent costly pandemics

New report's main finding is that protecting at least 30 percent of the world's land and ocean provides greater benefits than the status quo

Study first to show economic benefits of tackling dirty shoreline

New evidence suggests that the Trump Administration's proposal to rescind the 2015 Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule that would limit the scope of the Clean Water Act inappropriately overlooks wetlands-related values

This is the first comprehensive appraisal of the financial value of the natural resources damaged by the 134-million-gallon spill

Government needs to simplify the plethora of schemes aiming to facilitate business-industry research collaboration across all disciplines, according to a new review published today by Professor Dame Ann Dowling DBE FREng FRS, President of the Royal Academy of Engineering. 

Research at  Emory University’s Goizueta Business School suggests that hard economic times may positively influence young people.

The Science Coalition, representing the top 55 U.S. universities in research activity, asked its member institutions to identify those companies whose very existence grew out of federally-funded research on their respective campuses. The 55 institutions were able to point to 100 companies that trace their origins to basic research funded by the government.