Is Panama on the verge of a scientific brain drain?
Jun 23, 2016 11:11 am UTC| Insights & Views Business
Government support for research into new scientific learning and new technologies is crucial and difficult to get. What little money is available is hotly contested among researchers. They fight to justify investing...
Jun 23, 2016 11:07 am UTC| Business
Stavanger, Norway, June 23, 2016 -- Reference is made to the previous announcements by Statoil ASA (the "Company", OSE:STL, NYSE:STO) regarding the Dividend Issue for fourth quarter 2015. The share capital increase...
Jun 23, 2016 10:42 am UTC| Business
THESSALONIKI, Greece, June 23, 2016 -- ICT-STREAMS, a part of the European Union Horizon 2020 program, is a new ambitious project that was launched on 1st February 2016 with the goal to develop the necessary set of...
Drug companies are buying doctors – for as little as a $16 meal
Jun 23, 2016 09:34 am UTC| Insights & Views Business Law
An important new study in the United States has found doctors who receive just one cheap meal from a drug company tend to prescribe a lot more of that companys products. The damming findings demonstrate the value of new...
Experienced shareholders better than independent directors for business
Jun 23, 2016 08:58 am UTC| Insights & Views Business
Businesses benefit from having substantial shareholders as directors on audit committees, but only when they are utilising swing trades, new research shows. The research compares the presence of these experienced directors...
Is the productivity drive hurting employers as well as employees?
Jun 23, 2016 08:35 am UTC| Insights & Views Business
Productivity is supposedly at the heart of any successful enterprise. We are told that we are in a global race to grab our share of the 21st century marketplace. Countries, nations and even individuals all must constantly...
Statoil ASA: Allocation of Dividend Shares to primary insiders
Jun 23, 2016 06:08 am UTC| Business
STAVANGER, Norway, June 23, 2016 -- Reference is made to the announcement by Statoil ASA (the "Company", OSE:STL, NYSE:STO) on 23 May 2016 regarding the participation by the primary insiders in the Dividend Issue for the...
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