An independent Scotland can reinvigorate the regulation of these critical infrastructure industries.
Caterpillar (CAT) comfortably towers over one of its relatively Lilliputian rival, Terex, a diversified global manufacturer of a wide array of equipment for the construction and infrastructure industries.
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Output of India's eight infrastructure industries, which have a total weight of 38% in the index of industrial production, rose 2.9% from a year earlier in March, data showed Tuesday.
And if the European experience is anything to go by, it requires a significant investment in onshore infrastructure and supporting industries to make it happen.
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Soon after Bain and Co published a report indicating that, because of an unprecedented capital surplus, now is the ideal time to make long term transitional investments in infrastructure and new industries.
To meet these goals, we need to rebuild the infrastructure that powers our industries.
And more than 75, 000 projects were started nationwide to improve our infrastructure, jumpstart emerging industries, and spur local economic development.
The new data-driven industries and their jobs will run on the infrastructure of the Internet just as the growth industries of the industrial revolution used railroads, highways and the telephone.
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President Obama could issue an executive order on Tuesday dictating cybersecurity standards for industries with vulnerable infrastructure, such as transportation.
For the present the rise of knowledge-intensive global industries favours centres rich in infrastructure and specialised skills.
The Cyber Security Act of 2012 aims to give the Department of Homeland Security the power to mandate the security level in industries it deems as critical infrastructure, such as power and telecommunications, water treatment facilities and wireless providers.
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And the only way to do that is to make the key investments in our infrastructure, in innovation, in the industries and the technologies that will drive job creation in the future in America, and in education so that we have the kind of educated workforce in science and technology and engineering and other areas that we need in order to win the future.
The struggling economies spending billions in infrastructure improvements or attempting to prop up old industries as a way of increasing employment, could spend a fraction of that amount to seed mobile internet start-ups.
But the government could tackle home-grown difficulties that strangle supply in all sorts of industries, including agriculture, retailing, infrastructure and logistics.
After all, China is investing heavily across a number of industries, especially those that relate to infrastructure, and the government has a vested interest in ensuring that the money is used most cost effectively.
When asked about where he sees opportunities as a global investor, aside from being bullish on telecom, Slim said that industries ripe for investment include housing, infrastructure, mining, food, oil, energy, medicine and ones that provide environmental solutions.
The industries involved also need to ensure that the infrastructure is scalable to handle the potential exponential growth of a huge customer base.
Experts have long warned that U.S. National Critical Infrastructure such as transportation, energy, telecommunications, defense and other industries are vulnerable to cyberattacks form hostile governments and groups.
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At this point in time, businesses in most industries need to face the fact that expanding the network infrastructure responsible for hosting computing processes is critical in a competitive marketplace.
Industries that rely on government contracts, such as transport and infrastructure, are likely to feel the most impact.
We have contracts with many of the suppliers to these industries, and as projects are built, we supply the infrastructure.
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It certainly has not flowed into such basic infrastructure as roads, bridges and ports that are needed to keep key industries competitive.
To meet the mandate of buying 30% of its products from small-scale local industries, IKEA would have to help those vendors modernize their infrastructure and manufacturing capabilities to ensurethey can offerworld-class quality.
If we're to adequately defend ourselves and our far-flung infrastructure, the federal government, state governments, local governments, private industries, are all going to have to incur expenditures greatly exceeding what we're thinking about right now.
The large infrastructure requirements have made the technology viable mainly for large enterprises in highly regulated industries.
By increasing its investment in Greece and its infrastructure, the Chinese will gain significant influence over the country, its vital industries and its trade.
Throughout the 20th century, the federal government invested in dams, transportation infrastructure and military installations that facilitated economic expansion and the emergence of new private industries.
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The winners will be the ones able to rethink their positioning in the value chain of their respective industries and to rapidly enable the eco-systems, tools and infrastructure required to execute their new strategy.
President Obama has made it clear that investing in infrastructure is not a partisan issue and it's time to put those in industries hit hardest by the recession back to work rebuilding America.
With a well-developed infrastructure, a free-enterprise economy, generally pro-investment policies, and strong export industries, Thailand enjoyed solid growth from 2000 to 2007 - averaging more than 4% per year - as it recovered from the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98.
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