He says government incentives have triggered a race to build new ethanol plants across the Midwest.
Mr Spence and Mr Atkinson would like to see government incentives aimed at strategic manufacturing sectors.
And government: Government incentives and disincentives can have a huge effect on consumer and corporate behavior.
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Thanks to government incentives, Malaysia has become a good place to start a manufacturing plant.
Without Glass-Steagall quarantining traditional banking, the government incentives and rules were expanded and spread to the entire financial system.
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Cost and range remain an issue, he said, and for any car to succeed, government incentives must be eliminated.
The financial crisis which began in 2007 was the aftermath of a housing bubble fueled largely by government incentives.
Government incentives, in forms of tax credits, rebates and grants, have played a big role in boosting the solar market growth.
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Similar to many markets nationwide, Kansas City developers delivered a number of new projects financed with generous local-government incentives and cheap bank debt.
One of the government incentives Mr. Reid supported for the renewable-energy industry was a 30% investment tax credit for companies in the solar-energy business.
It is no wonder, then, that companies that do not receive any government incentives would do all they can to reduce their effective tax rate.
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For now, at least, power generated from waves costs more than electricity in most of the world, leaving the company dependent on government incentives and subsidies.
"If we're going to make these vehicles successful, especially after government incentives go away, we're going to have make them affordable, " said company spokesman John Hanson.
But over the long term, drug companies aren't likely to want to wade into fighting infectious disease without major government incentives, like patent extensions on completely unrelated drugs.
The firm told staff that, although Belfast was not "the cheapest option", the quality of the city and the government incentives made it a "viable and attractive option".
New roads and railroads attracted manufacturing as did government incentives.
Fueled partly by billions in government incentives, the industry is creating millions of solar panels each year and, in the process, millions of pounds of polluted sludge and contaminated water.
Many Wessis, tempted by cheaper labour, the chance to ignore red tape and fat government incentives to invest in the former east, have moved their businesses across the old line.
Neither have government incentives to buy houses helped much.
Sterling Burnett, senior fellow for the National Center for Policy Analysis, says government incentives skew national energy policy and that they should end for both the renewable sector and oil and gas industries.
These industries were able to grow because they are more dependent on government incentives and subsidy programs than they are on more traditional economic factors like, say, whether people or businesses are actually buying things.
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The USDA again raised its estimate of how much of that crop will be consumed by the ethanol fuel industry, which enjoys extensive government incentives, to 4.9 billion bushels, up 100 million bushels from its December estimate.
Only Fiat, hit by a collapse in Brazil and a depressed Italian market (partly thanks to the end of government incentives for people to buy new cars), is suffering: its car business is barely breaking even this year.
Second, because they spend too much time trying to gain access to government incentives, would-be entrepreneurs spend too little time in studying the market for new products that will ultimately determine the success or the failure of the company.
Second, because they spend too much time trying to gain access to government incentives, would-be entrepreneurs spend too little time in studying the market for the new product that will ultimately determine the success or the failure of the product.
Derek Henderson, senior partner at Deloitte in Aberdeen, said confidence in the North Sea was still high thanks to government tax incentives.
Newell says getting businesses to develop cleaner types of fuel depends on government providing incentives for the environmentally friendly technology, and regulating higher-polluting fuel sources.
And the government offers incentives to keep the money coming.
Our policy includes pressure on the Sudanese government and incentives.
The White House brief mentioned a long list of government tax incentives, but they are usually tax credits or deductions rewarding a behavior, not an excise tax on inactivities.
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