Lastly Stiglitz worries that increased investment in capital intensive technology will contribute to a jobless recovery.
Because the U.S. utility sector is so capital intensive, it must maintain investment-grade credit ratings.
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Little argues that, because the memory industry is so capital intensive, only the richest firms can survive.
MetLife said the deal supports its focus on shifting the company's business mix to less capital intensive products.
The major impasse to successfully growing a clean technology company is the capital intensive nature of the business.
In fact, Apple is trading at a valuation that is more in-line with capital intensive industrial and manufacturing businesses.
Solar power is more capital intensive than the majority of competing clean-energy applications.
Entrepreneurs are encouraged to undertake many longer-term, more capital intensive projects than they ought not, but which appear profitable.
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Such outflows hurt capital intensive U.S. companies and destroy U.S. manufacturing jobs relative to the less capital intensive service sector.
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The business needs to become much less capital intensive (inclusive of acquisitions) over time, as Google and Microsoft have done.
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New infrastructure -- it used to be that you had to have telephone lines and very capital intensive in order to communicate.
The capital intensive setup and expensive drilling procedure leaves very low margins for the drilling companies at the current natural gas rates.
In general home life is now more complex and capital intensive than optimal and work life is simpler and more labor intensive than optimal.
The collapse of capital intensive activities when money is tight will be quicker than in the labour intensive field, although the rebound is quicker.
Some speculate that Ispat and other capital intensive manufacturers will be relegated to the status of being the low-margin drones of others' supply chains.
Industry experts say cleantech investment amounts typically far exceed those for software or Web 2.0 companies because cleantech companies are more labor and capital intensive.
Capital intensive, cyclical and low margin, steel is in the dumps.
He needs to attract partners and fresh capital to make his ventures, most of them capital intensive start-ups, bring in expected revenues and reach production targets.
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The drop was broad-based, with 13 out of the 27 business categories falling, with capital intensive machinery equipment seeing the largest drop of 5.4% from March.
The reserve life of a typical gold mine is no more than 10 years so the reinvestment rate for exploration and incremental production is capital intensive.
That is not a completely fair comparison, of course, as growing algae is far more capital intensive, and requires the plants to be force-fed with CO2.
Many renewables, like wind and solar power, are expensive, intermittent, and difficult to scale for example, while nuclear power is extremely capital intensive and faces substantial local opposition.
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High taxes favor capital intensive production, small businesses and entrepreneurs.
Problem is many of the assets on their balance sheets are falling in value and are no longer tradable, forcing a deleveraging that has proven painful and capital intensive.
If you can do more work with fewer servers and less power, it may be possible to extend the life of a data center and avoid capital intensive construction.
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Natural gas development will drive the construction of additional power generation, desalination facilities, and petrochemical plants, all capital intensive undertakings that cannot be supported using existing financing mechanism accessible to Israel.
Also, MSPs can be less capital intensive for start-ups.
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But the venture world has learned some hard lessons on the difficulty of building energy businesses: they face science risk, often take a long time to scale and can be capital intensive.
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"It might strike people as a lot of money really early, " says Corsell of GridPoint's fund-raising success, but he adds that the business of investing in the electric grid is highly capital intensive.
This behavior is common to any capital intensive business with a lag time, and I have described the similarity of the semiconductor market to airlines and shipping firms in an earlier post.
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