This means that it can negotiate on more favorable terms with a more powerful competitor, contribute something of value to a joint-development project, increase its role in a standards group, raise capital more easily, etc.
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The Joint Private Cloud initiative would provide pre-integrated solutions based on joint technology development, and will be a one-stop-shop for sales and support.
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With the Philippines, China does seem to be taking a somewhat softer line, pushing the possibility of joint oil-and-gas development.
Alcatel-Lucent and China Mobile signed a co-creation agreement in January 2012 to conduct joint development and test activities on a series of lightRadio TD-LTE projects to speed the deployment of LTE in China.
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For the JAGM contract, Lockheed provides a 27-month technology development program that includes design, test and demonstration of joint air-to-ground missile system that significantly enhances warfighters operational flexibility and combat effectiveness.
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The company's revenue comes from joint ventures, licensing, research-and-development contracts and manufacturing.
He charges the joint venture for research and development, engineering, machine-building and other services.
The report credits Mr Zoellick with proposing in 2010 that the bank and government should work on a joint project on challenges to China's longer-term development.
Mr Fox is promoting an ambitious joint development scheme for Central America, called the Puebla-Panama Plan.
The overall goal of this joint UNESCO-Varkey GEMS Foundation initiative is to facilitate the professional development of 10, 000 principals in three countries: Ghana, Kenya and India over a four-year period.
He spent hundreds of millions more on product development, joint ventures and computer systems to layer on and cross-sell new services.
The two companies have a technology-sharing alliance, a pact to cooperate on biofuels development and joint ventures to develop offshore fields.
Lutz says other homerooms haven't been assigned yet, but GM's new Daewoo joint venture seems a shoo-in as the focal point for small-car development.
An automatic hamburger flipper currently in development could replace low-wage line cooks at a beachside burger joint, for example.
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On the eve of the conference, the FAO and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development issued a joint report that warned that the urban poor in food-importing countries will require increased humanitarian aid to stave off hunger and undernourishment that can also lead to civil strife.
The aircraft procured for the Marine MLR will be inadequate for the joint services missions the V-22 was designed to perform, thereby ensuring that expensive new development and acquisition programs will have to be undertaken to meet these other requirements.
Academia and non-profits benefit from spinouts as well, so incentives are already in place for joint development.
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The joint private-sector forum introduced today will specifically be looking into clearing and settlement systems, market liquidity and the development of new yuan-denominated products.
Professor Rafiq Tahir, Joint Secretary Ministry of Capital Administration and Development (CAD) presented an action plan for enforcement of Article 25-A of the constitution and right to free and compulsory education act 2012 in Islamabad.
The joint venture will provide consumers the broadest possible access to content, and support high-quality, award-winning content development across all platforms including film, television, and online.
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The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and Microsoft Corp. today announced a joint task force to help higher education institutions worldwide meet the growing challenge of supporting economic stimulus efforts and work-force development strategies.
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