For example, many valuable employees are impossible to replace, and lost knowledge and capabilities cannot be acquired from the labor market.
This problem is compounded by the fact that private firms and investors fear that energy technologies will be reverse-engineered and their value will be lost due to knowledge spill-over.
Critics raised concerns that if local knowledge was lost because calls were being answered in a regional centre instead of the service's two centres in Devon and Somerset, it could affect response times and risk lives.
By the 1970s fewer than 25% of American women even tried to breastfeed and experiential knowledge had been lost.
One concern is that the bank has lost too much of the tacit knowledge of the workings of the financial-services industry needed to be a good all-round regulator.
Files stored in the cloud can still be easily lost or subpoenaed without the users' knowledge, Jeschke noted, an issue that's often overlooked.
"To the best of our knowledge, Barron's never lost a lawsuit while Alan was editor, " said Mr. Finn.
He said he believed local knowledge of the area would be lost, but hoped that changes to the coastguard network would be successful.
In large part it was because in the balance of power, hustlers lost their main weapon: specialized and indispensable knowledge of murky emerging markets.
He said that he is inviting members of the current police authority to sit with him for a "transitional period", so that "knowledge and experience" is not lost.
It is exploring at the edges of drilling technology with the skills and knowledge that BP wished it had when it lost control of Macondo.
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And historically there was the additional fear that the precious store of knowledge accumulating as the world grew in wisdom might be lost by natural or man-made disaster.
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Postmen, whose encyclopaedic knowledge of their neighbourhood had long been the backbone of mail distribution, had lost track of their flock during the fighting.
Our scientific foundation is considerably more fragile than many appreciate (a fact definitely not lost on most biotech investors these days), and industry plays a vital role in pressure-testing this knowledge, unfortunately discovering in the process just how shaky it is.
He said the introduction of two-stage A-levels meant pupils had lost their previous freedom, in the first years after GCSEs, to think and read more widely, in the knowledge that the next exams were still some time off.
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