The problem with this is that the United States no longer has a significant manufacturing industry base.
"It will support high-tech areas where the UK's research base and industry can gain a competitive advantage, " said Science Minister David Willetts.
Piracy can be combated without heavy-handed legislation, largely by coming up with better access to digital media online and through trust-building between industry and their customer base.
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More importantly, I was learning about the PC and software industry and building a client base.
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This newfound attention to the appearance of computers is an inevitable byproduct of the industry's expanding customer base.
Seeing a potential for the industry despite its tiny asset base and somewhat disreputable image, FORBES put a spotlight on funds.
Big London-based investment banks already are looking at ways to lessen the impact of the potential new rules, such as sharply boosting base salaries, industry officials said.
Large corporate entities like AOL, Cox, eBay, Gannett are offering their own daily deals to their existing users, as are smaller companies that have a base in an industry like Zagat, OpenTable, Yelp, TravelZoo, and even Gilt Groupe. (Flash sales are actually different than daily deals, so they have Gilt City).
Our relentless focus now is to grow and satisfy a global customer base and build powerful industry partnerships.
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To begin with, though, the industry needs to get past first base by proving there is a market for such devices.
Deutsche Telekom has the best network, the best customer service in the industry and is expanding its customer base with innovative products.
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One of the most important tasks facing the industry is to broaden its investor base beyond the traditional group of limited partners.
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He cared so deeply about being part of the solution to create a viable American auto industry and a strong American manufacturing base.
Then there are the industry data firms, which generally base their pitch on aggregating data from the manufacturers, but I rather doubt Amazon is telling them anything.
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The Islamic finance industry faces a number of challenges, including the need to standardize interpretation of Shariah law, harmonize tax and regulation of the industry, and develop the skills base.
This has created a framework that is restricting business school graduates who may be equipped with a deeper understanding of the issues than the internal employee base but lack the industry experience to apply for the few available senior-level jobs.
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With carriers moving to higher-speed 4G networks like LTE to support the explosion of data traffic caused by the rapid adoption of cloud computing solutions and burgeoning video usage, Alcatel Lucent is looking to take advantage of the industry transition and leverage its existing base of edge routers to find an opening in the core router market.
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Novelist Scott Turow says he's long been frustrated by the industry's failure to study its customer base.
The magazine industry's slim but growing digital subscriber base could help convince advertisers of the value of magazines.
Russia, the world's ninth-largest economy, is seeking to diversify away from oil and gas and under President Vladimir Putin has made developing its manufacturing base, particularly the Russian car industry, an economic policy priority.
In the absence of a varied customer base, companies must constantly monitor industry trends and anticipate which companies are selling and buying, said Mike Hassell, the COO of Conduit Corporation, an investment fund that owns a stake in eDoc4u.
But, there are many smaller communities across the country that have advantageous locations or something unique about them (i.e. major university located there, name medical complex located there, significant clean industry in the city, highly educated population base without being a large urban complex) that offer attractive locations for women to look at when starting a business.
In July, Netflix shocked their industry-low-cost-leader video customer base with an abrupt out-of-nowhere 60% price increase.
The company is one of only a handful of U.S. companies that leads its industry while competing globally from a principally domestic manufacturing base.
The schemes also have the backing of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) which welcomed reinvigorating the science base for "the benefit of business and the UK as a whole".
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That implies the Army is squeezing contractors too tightly, and that the demanding terms it is trying to force on industry could end up backfiring by weakening the industrial base on which it depends.
Since an awful lot of industrial chemistry is catalysed this way, and the chemical industry lies, one way or another, at the base of most manufacturing, there is a good argument that this is the most important prize of the lot.
It was also close enough to the heavy industry of the south Wales valleys to act as a base for sabotage missions, and was rural enough for men to have scavenged for food and live anonymously for months at a time without attracting attention.
So, to have a self reliant aviation industry, it is only now that we have the knowledge base that will enable us to build and innovate for the next generation fighter jets, when this knowledge base has been available to the developed world for half a century!
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The luxury-goods industry had, in recent years, reaped rewards from widening its base of customers to the merely well-off.
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