Either way, low development cost is always good for the developers.
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Other nations have leapt ahead by implementing clean energy strategies that coordinate long-term investment in integrated research and development, low-cost financing for clean tech manufacturers, and stable policies to ensure domestic demand for clean energy.
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We welcomed the United States announcement of the Innovation in Science through Partners and Regional Engagement (INSPIRE) initiative, which will foster cooperation between U.S. and ASEAN scientists in such areas as pandemic flu monitoring and prevention, development of low-cost vaccines, drug treatment monitoring, health innovation, and disease research.
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Exploits against information systems are particularly attractive to organized crime and state actors because of the richness of the target environment, the ease of exploitation, low cost of attack development, reasonably strong anonymity and difficulties in attribution, and the practical shortfalls of international legal frameworks and law enforcement regimes.
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But with a low-cost structure and a quick development cycle, Socialbakers can be a big winner.
Another rapidly growing country with a decentralized government, Brazil has financed nearly every renewable energy project through the National Social Economic Development Bank (BNDES) with low-cost and long-term debt financing.
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Mr Kikuchi believes that, if Japanese manufacturers are to compete against nimbler low-cost rivals in China, the development of future products will involve a mix of different technologies and services.
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This can be accomplished by expanding independent pledges of humanitarian aid, enhancing participation in the existing U.N. relief and security apparatus, increasing high-level diplomatic contacts and implementing a comprehensive economic stimulation package which includes low-cost loans, grants, infrastructure development and corporate partnerships.
Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service offerings can also provide quick, low-cost access to data center resources for software development and prototyping.
The result is scattered, low-density development that keeps affordable housing out, increases the cost of infrastructure, separates inner-city residents from new jobs in the suburbs, and makes public transport less efficient.
I'm looking forward to discussing ways to encourage more investment in developing nations by making low-cost financing options for clean energy a priority of the international development banks.
For the past decade, Beijing has been shaping its foreign policy around securing long-term low-cost supplies of oil and other raw materials that it needs to sustain its economic development.
Such efforts notwithstanding, Josef Schmidhuber, an agronomist at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, argues that Brazil's competitive advantage lies in churning out huge quantities of low-cost bulk commodities.
Fully equipped for serious research, it unleashes the potential of low-cost innovation in a field that, until now, has been associated with high costs and long development cycles.
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Dense urban development patterns increase the number of people with whom we can have face-to-face interactions at low cost.
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