Development costs are rising dramatically, and games that aren't big hits struggle to reach profitability.
The plane maker's income was hurt by the weak dollar, higher research-and-development costs and pricing pressures.
Sales of the Chinese medicines should cover the development costs of the Western-style drugs.
So add to the benefits to going their own way lower and future-proofed development costs.
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Approximately 35% of drug development costs are for safety testing, while 65% are for efficacy testing.
But Mongolia is concerned it will not receive royalties any time soon because development costs have increased.
Generic-drug companies usually have lower research and development costs (relative to sales) than the big pharmaceutical houses.
Yet it is critical: Porting costs can be as much as 50% of the total development costs.
In addition to appealing to a broader audience, casual game developers also benefit from lower development costs.
There may be economies of scale in buying components and in spreading research-and-development costs over more cars.
By globalizing design in this fashion, Ghosn says, Renault and Nissan can each save 20% on development costs.
Also, the Irish companies pay for some of research and development costs incurred at Apple's headquarters in Cupertino, Calif.
But saving money on development costs turned out to be a false economy.
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Also make sure that plentiful profit potential remains after accounting for development costs.
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Its development costs are not much less than the firm's total asset value.
The other third is your development costs which are essentially clinical trial costs.
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Development costs and sales were in step with each other if you like.
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But under the skin, both brands share development costs and some of the platforms that underlie their respective models.
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Analysts worry that high product development costs and rising commodities prices could lower profit margins for the next few quarters.
Less obvious to customers, behind the scenes Kia and Hyundai more closely integrated their product lineups to save development costs.
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These include a partial redundancy of its IT system and a write-off of development costs on its traditional build centres.
Adding to development costs in the fickle homeschooling market is the fact that one size rarely, if ever, fits all.
Chuang thinks software acquisition and development costs are already out of control, and products like his will lead to more cost-cutting.
This reduction in size and weight would lower overall wind development costs, resulting in a lower overall delivered cost of electricity.
Earnings, however, decreased 37% because of higher selling, general and administrative expenses and a near doubling of research and development costs.
Therefore, development costs will be higher and there will be far fewer biosimilars developed than generic versions of small molecule drugs.
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Aside from buying a stake, Amgen also reserved the right to collaborate in developing ViaCell products, paying half of development costs.
The GAO report concluded that since 2007 development costs had risen by 26% and the timetable had slipped by five years.
Operating income is revenues less player costs, selling, general and marketing expenses, stadium operations, coaches and player development costs and travel.
It's a fairly sweet deal: The companies will evenly split development costs and U.S. profits on what could be a billion-dollar drug.
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