Thus, when the government starts choosing industries and technologies to subsidize, it often makes bad decisions at taxpayer expense.
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And the only way to do that is to make the key investments in our infrastructure, in innovation, in the industries and the technologies that will drive job creation in the future in America, and in education so that we have the kind of educated workforce in science and technology and engineering and other areas that we need in order to win the future.
That's why it's so important for us to invest in new industries and new technologies.
Ultimately, money goes to bad welfare, declining industries and outdated technologies rather than areas that can lead to the advancement and economic growth and widespread prosperity.
American Express Ventures is participating in the merger of the payments and ecommerce industries, and is finding technologies that help the underbanked and unbanked, said Dan Schulman, group president of enterprise growth at American Express, during a conference presentation.
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Advances and scale in the media player and mobile telecoms industries have made these technologies accessible and affordable.
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In the 1910s-20s, it was entrepreneurs like these who created the automobile and aerospace industries, household technologies for the new, urban nuclear-family middle class, and so forth.
An revolution in education has to happen we insist that our military and industries and entertainment all maintain cutting-edge technologies and get the spending and advances they need, yet we treat the education of our children as an afterthought.
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The other advantage of latecomer economies is that they are not heavily invested in old industries and can adopt new technologies with limited negative impacts.
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"This project honours the past and embraces the future, bringing together the heritage of the old industries and signposting the new technologies of the Sheffield region, " he said.
Such a program will bring basic research to upgrade existing technologies and industries.
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In particular, investments now to catalyze competitive clean energy technologies and industries will pay big economic dividends down the line.
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These are technologies and industries that will be very important in the 21st century, very important to the potential for the United States to become more energy independent.
She said Labour would also boost the economy in Norfolk through "investment in long-term sustainable new technologies and industries from regional, central and European funding sources, for example, the sustainable energy sector".
Our technologies and services include: surface and subsea drilling and production, monitoring and diagnostics, measurement and controls, large-scale LNG, pipeline compression and inspection, well site and industrial power generation, technologies for the refining and petrochemical industries, and modular CNG and LNG units for transportation sectors.
Specifically, the conference will focus on the goals and strategies in this new vision, the next steps, and the new technologies, new jobs, and new industries it will create.
And as a result, once we put our minds to it, once we got focused, once we got unified, not only did we surpass the Soviets, we developed new American technologies, industries, and jobs.
Much of the money was diverted to northern England, regenerating a region that had been long dependent on old fashioned manufacturing industries as a hub for new technologies and computing in a process known as the Big Bang.
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For four decades after World War II, the federal government made enormous investments in research universities, national laboratories, communications and micro-processing technologies, and the necessary infrastructure to support the development and commercialization of information technologies that have transformed the American workplace, created entire new industries, and made the American economy the most productive in the world.
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For more than sixty years, federally funded scientific research has generated discoveries that lead to new technologies, products, and industries.
Panasonic and Kawasaki Heavy Industries are also providing leading edge technologies.
The vehicle illustrates the reason President Obama is heading to Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University to kick-off the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership (AMP), a national collaboration between the government, industries, and universities to invest in cutting-edge technologies.
In his State of the Union speech, President Obama cited computer chips and the Internet as examples of technologies that were originally funded by the government, and later unleashed new industries.
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This is especially the case in the high technology sector, wherein radical technologies and products fuel exponential growth for emerging industries which lasts for years.
What quickly emerged was Stelios' "easy" method of reengineering traditional industries: Strip out unnecessary costs and bolt on the efficiencies of new technologies.
Of course we still need manufacture: the creative industries themselves depend on the linked nexus of broadcast, recording and communication technologies not to mention the modern city which are indispensable to their growth.
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Ballard, by contrast, is trying to displace existing technologies, in which huge industries have invested decades of research and training.
Recently, we started applying our big data analytics technologies in other industries, such as seismic exploration of minerals and fundamental physics.
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But in the long run, we need to invest in the technologies and innovation that will lead to the jobs and the industries of tomorrow.
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