Deutsche Telekom recently bought 20% stakes in both Malaysia's biggest cellular company, Technology Resources Industries (TRI), and fledgling Philippine operator, Islacom.
Caterpillar is profiting from growth in emerging markets and the natural-resources industries that serve them, even as the world's developed economies take a breather.
Analysts worry that the pendulum might shift when local governments have to allocate their limited resources to industries with brighter outlooks and to invest in growth and employment.
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The real issue is whether we have the political resolve to shift scarce spectrum resources from legacy industries.
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This represents hundreds-of-billions of dollars saved in time and resources across major industries.
Resources are shifting into these industries, helping to cushion the downturn and reorient America's economy.
Sustained growth in income and jobs relies on a continuous shift of resources to higher-value industries.
That plus the news of the vastly larger 1012 DA 14 which has just gone sailing past (in a near miss that in astonomical terms is hardly a miss at all) leads to the hope that Deep Space Industries and Planetary Resources get going with their idea of mining asteroids pretty sharpish.
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By taking resources from the new, unborn industries and using it to prop up the old, dying ones.
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Having some resources is better than no resources, but having resource based industries dominate your economy crowds out all other investment.
Funding priorities may change in the longer term if the government funding agents can devote financial resources to a broader range of industries.
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As a result, according to the World Bank, from 2001 to 2002 growth accelerated in the industries that export natural resources but slowed in those that produce goods for the home market.
Such an environment breeds innovation, green fields and the growth of new industries such as energy, resources, bio sciences.
When politicians prop up failing firms or resurrect dying industries, they trap precious resources in arrangements focused to the old market realities.
And while some industries (automotive and construction) and regions (Las Vegas and Detroit) have been hit particularly hard, virtually all industries and regions have unemployed resources.
Frank Dadah, a principal account manager and general manager at WinterWyman , a recruitment firm that specializes in search and contract staffing in the Technology, Accounting and Finance, Human Resources, and Investments and Financial Services industries, says job hopping is moving from one company to the next for either a lateral move or promotion.
Government has and will continue to serve as a facilitator in the marketplace in the United States and around the world, providing resources and setting policies to aid the expansion of industries.
Traditional industries on the island once relied on natural resources.
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It is also expected to keep some of the country's scarce natural resources within its borders and to boost production in high-tech industries.
This document will play an integral role in mapping out cultural resources and identifying potential agents and partners for the development of creative industries in the country.
Innovation-focused pools of capital need to be available at the federal level for regions to leverage existing resources, spur collaboration, and support job creation in high growth industries.
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"It is true that the main resources and capital was concentrated in the banking, construction and extractive industries, " said Prime Minister Masimov in the BBC interview, stressing that the nation could develop its IT industry and become a regional IT hub.
He said that it was possible to bring light manufacturing industries to Montana, where they would be closer to the natural resources needed for their businesses.
In coming months he will rip up the EDS organization and try to eradicate fiefs that serve single industries, often with their own redundant accounting, legal and technical resources.
Our economy would improve if the resources devoted to the real estate market could be devoted to other, more needed industries.
Brandy Lee is a seasoned human resources executive with practical experience in employee development and change management in a variety of industries.
The network facilitates the sharing of experience, knowledge and resources among the member cities as a means of promoting the development of local creative industries and fostering worldwide co-operation for sustainable urban development.
Not the least of which is that each of these acquisitions span various industries with calculated levels of expertise including data analytics, clinical trial, human resources and even social media.
The global decrease of coastal marine resources and decline in marine biodiversity will impact countries dependent on coastal fishing, fish-processing industries and tourism causing economic hardship as well as destabilising food security for the 1 billion people who depend on fisheries for most of their protein diet.
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