Politicians argued that Britain should try to wean itself off financial services and rediscover honest manufacturing and small- and medium-sized enterprise.
Even before the debate began, government economists had been studying measures such as allowing more self-employment and private or co-operative ownership of small and medium-sized businesses, as well as reforming land tenure and freeing agricultural markets.
But Messrs Morgan and Cooke say that most small-and medium-sized enterprises still regard their local universities as ivory towers, with little useful to offer.
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With long-term investment horizons, life insurance companies in developed economies are important investors in the stock market, as well as in the private placement markets for debt and equity securities issued by small- and medium-sized enterprises.
The Obama campaign was forced to build an alternative financial base, consisting of a few major Illinois donors, such as Pritzker, and an intricate network of small- and medium-sized donors, many of whom were new to national politics.
We want to stimulate spending in the private sector and allow everyone to thrive, especially small- and medium-sized businesses.
Italy is mired in recession, with a massive debt burden, and needs to get investment flowing again to hard-hit small and medium-sized businesses.
We have a lot of work and learning to do in order to catch up with our global competitors whose small- and medium-sized businesses are already skilled exporters.
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And for small and medium-sized businesses robots are generally too costly and too inflexible.
The ONS includes internet-only sales and has much wider coverage of small and medium-sized businesses.
The banks will no longer be allowed to lend to property developers, and must refocus their business on loans to Spanish households and to small and medium-sized businesses.
The government plans to eliminate the 10% corporate-tax surcharge and reduce the company-tax rate to 33% for big firms and only 15% for small and medium-sized firms.
Duffaut came to SAP in 2005 and ran the Small and Medium-sized Enterprise (SME) channel in the EMEA region.
Next week, tweaks in the tax system are expected to promote investment, especially in research and development by small and medium-sized companies.
Regional Landesbanks provide vital financing and support to small and medium-sized enterprises which would otherwise not have access to funding from national banks.
Small- and medium-sized businesses added more jobs than large businesses, with 117, 000 and 144, 000 respectively.
That makes MySQL an appealing option for small- and medium-sized businesses, says Forrester analyst Noel Yuhanna.
Industry groups say the standards, put in place to discourage corporate fraud, are too cumbersome for small- and medium-sized businesses.
At the same time, small- and medium-sized enterprise users are not expected to upgrade to Windows 8 for at least a year.
The meat and potatoes of this bond recommendation are that the new slimmed down, post-bankruptcy CIT is lending to small- and medium-sized businesses.
Small- and medium-sized companies were the first, during the late 1980s, to call for more immigrant workers as a way to remain competitive.
While SuccessFactors and Taleo (Nasdaq:TLEO) have done a bang-up job for enterprise HCM, Flip sees an even bigger opportunity for small- and medium-sized businesses.
These are just the kind of plants used by the small-and medium-sized businesses that have been the engine of much of China's recent growth.
On Monday, it made an attempt to penetrate into another key market, releasing software co-developed with Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) for small- and medium-sized businesses.
Small- and medium-sized businesses will access applications they could never otherwise afford, and larger businesses will be able to control their costs by shared use of what would otherwise be excess computing capacity.
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According to survey of more than 15, 000 small- and medium-sized enterprises, those with a medium or heavy Internet presence expect to grow by 17% over the next three years, compared with 12% for those less engaged online.
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Continuing east along Hong Kong island are many other small- and medium-sized technology companies like Space Asia Media, which provides technology and marketing advice to publishers and advertisers -- one of about 10 similar ventures in a concentrated area.
Instead of just focusing on big name British companies to sign big ticket deals, Mr Cameron has brought with him 30-odd small- and medium-sized firms in the hope that they can inculcate a new generation of trade and entrepreneurial links with India.
The sales-minded executive Tuesday announced he was dissolving an HP group responsible for sales to small- and medium-sized businesses to give HP's salespeople more direct customer contact, and stressed that HP would work only with partners that made it a point to champion HP products.
While Hon Hai is getting the rosy side of the deal for Sharp's TV-oriented Sakai plant, it's now thought to be paying Sharp for display technology that would go into a new factory in Chengdu for small- and medium-sized LCDs used for smartphones and tablets.
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