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Rapid advances in science and technology in the 19th and 20th centuries fostered the development of several overlapping systems of units of measurements as scientists improvised to meet the practical needs of their disciplines . By licensing technologies to private companies and awarding grants for innovative research , the project catalyzed the multibillion-dollar U.S. biotechnology industry and fostered the development of new medical applications . Tremendous advances in computing power and in global communication networks have fostered the development of highly complicated derivative instruments and have permitted virtually instantaneous transfers of funds and execution of transactions anywhere in the world . In addition to spurring on the creativity of Toulouse-Lautrec and Paul Gauguin , it has also fostered the growth of the gargantuan entity that is America 's adult entertainment industry . The Commission believes that three interrelated factors have fostered the definition of marihuana as a major national problem . For example , even in the most basic practical terms , the institutional environment has fostered the exchange of information on national educational policies from the very beginning of the rise of the modern educational system . Enactment of femininity over ever-widening social spaces fostered the emergence of an alternative sense of gender identity . The award , which recognizes “ individuals who or organizations that have strengthened and fostered the development of the free-enterprise system worldwide , ” was not the only recent honor for LSU ’ s entrepreneurial program , however . LSU Prof. Robert T. Justis ( left ) recently won the International Franchise Association 's Free Enterprise Award , which recognizes " individuals who or organizations that have strengthened and fostered the development of the free-enterprise system worldwide . Within the round walls of the Scheie Eye Institute , the next leader of the Department , Myron Yanoff , M.D ., fostered the growth of subspecialties envisioned by Scheie .