incentives

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It said there had been "unprecedented" average pay rises and financial incentives offered for "crunch" - a video game industry term for excessive, sometimes unpaid, overtime in the lead-up to a game's release.

From BBC • Jun. 30, 2026

“There are a lot of incentives pushing us in this direction,” Lee said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 30, 2026

But without incentives for companies to voluntarily relocate, the massive investment could backfire, warned Kim Dae-jong, a professor of Business Administration at Sejong University.

From Barron's • Jun. 29, 2026

Tax reforms and other incentives to encourage private-equity and institutional investors to fund scale-up businesses—as Sweden and France have done—could help boost the innovation that Germany has lacked.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 28, 2026

“Researchers have become entrepreneurs. That’s boomed our economy and created incentives to do research. But it’s also brought problems, like secrecy and arguments over who owns what.”

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot