Distribution is now so cheap that an individual can finance the distribution of millions of copies of a work for trivial amounts of money.
Then more recently, Kickstarter and Etsy and other markets that have basically solved the last piece of the puzzle, which is finance and distribution.
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Not just new inventions, but new methods of organization, marketing, worker motivation and production, distribution and finance.
The Budget Bill is designed to enable distribution of finance to government departments in the year 2010-11, and authorises the use of the block grant by government departments, the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Northern Ireland Authority for Utility Regulation.
It will spread to finance and manufacturing as well as distribution and trading services businesses.
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But incentives for innovation abound in a swathe of areas: product design and manufacture, distribution, retailing, marketing, finance, systems, wholesaling, affinity, marketing communications, technology, (have we missed anything?).
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In Berlin, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble called the levy part of the "fair" distribution of the bailout's burden.
For example it may become very clear that the marketing team develops poor advertising, the finance team makes lousy forecasts, the sales force is not hitting its distribution goals, or the product development team failed to incorporate key elements.
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In America the annual growth rates of output per hour leapt from 2.6% to 4.4% in distribution and from 0.2% to 2.6% in finance and business services.
The corporate labs, offices, factories, warehouses, distribution centers, retail outlets, customer service, repairing outlets, and finance and accounting departments exist because of me, to serve and accommodate my needs and desires.
Aside from manufacturing, which makes up most of the workforce, it has finance, legal, IT, order processing, transport and logistics, warehouse and distribution departments which were not affected by the initial announcement.
And Veba this week sacked the head of Stinnes, its distribution division, after he insisted on making an acquisition that Veba's finance people feared might weaken its share price.
Electronic Arts would finance the illicitly-created start-up in exchange for an ownership interest or exclusive distribution rights to the content created by their new company, which would produce video games for Electronic Arts instead of Activision.
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There was no real national distribution scheme, very little marketing and advertising, and no effective system of consumer finance.
Naya Jeevan negotiates and buys group-health plans from insurance companies at below-market rates and leverages corporate distribution networks, supply chains, and human resources to distribute, market and co-finance the plans.
"Our current system can create some serious work disincentives, particularly at low and high ends of the income distribution, so the potential efficiency gains are pretty clear, " Justin Ross, Professor of Public Finance at Indiana University, told the BBC.
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