And the way many of them cluster together helps them to share distribution and marketing.
Supply chains are global, but firms that make similar things cluster together, like those spindlemakers in Poole.
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Insulin molecules normally cluster together in a "six-pack" configuration, which the body has to convert to the single, or monomer, form.
Best of all, for Ireland, high-tech companies are a bit like lemmings: They tend to cluster together in packs following the leaders.
And severe dips can "cluster together, " points out Mr. Kinniry of Vanguard.
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The nanotubes naturally cluster together into tiny bunches, and were found to be able to store 4.2% of their own weight of hydrogen.
Keep in mind that when Google collects news from different sources across the web that might be on the same event or topic, it will take those and cluster them together, and then rank one or more higher than they others from within that cluster.
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They have displayed their results on an ingenious map of the industrial landscape, in which similar products cluster tightly together and unrelated products stand apart.
American liberalism and American conservatism are sprawling political coalitions bound together by a cluster of shared values, assumptions, and associations.
Dell, which employs 7, 000 people in the Austin area, is the main company in Austin's second cluster of 250 computer-related companies which together employ 38, 000 people.
"This is our first international partnership which we expect will create value for our members together with the important Welsh life science cluster, " she said.
Her genesis tells you something about the way business and academics are working together in the UK's leading hi-tech cluster.
Ultimately, says Dr Dean, the big question is this: now that processing power has become so cheap, how can lots of processors be made to work together efficiently, either within a single machine, within a cluster, or across the Internet?
Bringing together resources with common vision can create exponential growth opportunities for the cluster.
While the frontline members of the cluster focus on building their businesses or conducting their research, the intermediary adds value by tying the threads together.
While still at McKinsey, Artun wrote a machine learning algorithm that clustered customers who tended to buy items similar to each other and related that cluster to various sales coverage efforts, which were the items that salespeople seemed to be most comfortable selling together, and built a matching algorithm to match salespeople with customers.
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