Once the research costs had been met, they were not particularly expensive.

More than £20 million in research costs has been lost on an abandoned nuclear safety programme.

In a just world, those buyers would pay a greater share of Apple's research costs.

It could save years and, in turn, millions of dollars in research costs, he said.

This represented more money than he had ever seen in one place, enough to cover a lot of research costs and still live well for months.

Economists say that drug companies - even foreign ones - are able to charge American patients a disproportionate share of their research costs.

Excess profits and high research cost are not the whole problem.

Drug companies' estimates of research costs are too high, Government economists say in a report.

The research costs and ownership of the results will be shared.

Low research costs are a common method used to convince other scientist foundations to provide funding for this reason.