Word: payout
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...payout doesn't kick in until regulators approve the drugs for commercial use and the developers start receiving royalties, which can take years. "There are a lot easier ways to [make money] than to put your life into a high-risk adventure," says Dahiyat. Fortunately, the occasional chance to shout "Eureka!"--or at least, "We've got structure!"--also keeps their innovators going...
...bonus for what Nichia claimed was merely a contribution to a team project, Nakamura sued his former employer in 2001, seeking a greater share of the profits from its LED patents and winning $194 million from a district judge. Although that decision was overturned, the $8 million payout, which Nakamura reluctantly accepted, marks the largest-ever award to a Japanese employee as compensation for an invention...
Massachusetts Gov. W. Mitt Romney announced a $183 million increase in state payout to towns and cities last Friday, part of which, it is hoped, will benefit the city of Cambridge...
...with its $22.6 billion coffers. The Harvard Management Company, which invests the endowment, achieved a 21.1 percent return during fiscal 2004—a return it says leads the endowments of other large universities. Around a third of the University’s annual budget comes from the endowment payout...
...Harvard, endowment payout is responsible for a much larger share of revenue. About a third of the University’s budget is funded by payout from the endowment. For the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), that figure is even higher, at 47 percent...