The JEI selected 100 public schools to test the innovations and provided them with the needed technical infrastructure.
They may provide the technical and financial infrastructure that keeps the business going, but most of the creative input comes from independent firms and freelancers.
Some of its rivals, such as Sweden's Ericsson, have already transferred all their mobile-telephone production to subcontractors rather than trying to keep up with the research and development spending and technical infrastructure needed to continue to make them on their own.
The phone network is thus not just a technical infrastructure, but a socioeconomic one.
Polish security would be much better served by large scale US investments in shale gas extraction, or even technical advise in infrastructure construction, than by the stationing of missile interceptors, but the later has had endless volumes written about it while the first, although occasionally mentioned, is not a topic of any special concern.
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"We've got to be the infrastructure, " says Greg Papadopoulos, Sun's chief technical officer.
The EO actually does a couple of good things: It authorizes government agencies to share classified and unclassified threat and technical information with critical infrastructure owners and operators and allows for the expedited processing of security clearances to personnel within these entities.
If the new French president "gets his way and we enter a golden era of infrastructure spending someone in the private sector will have to provide the material and technical skills to deliver the projects on time and in good order, " said Stephen Pope, managing partner at Spotlight Ideas.
In 1995 I was working the technical support help desk for Xerox, EDS had just won a contract to support the Xerox infrastructure.
Over the last decade, China, Africa's largest trade partner, has quietly invested significant sums in building communications infrastructure across Africa, providing technical upgrades for state broadcasters and training journalists from across the continent.
"Car-to-car and car-to-infrastructure communications represent the next major advancements in vehicle safety, " said Paul Mascarenas, chief technical officer and vice president, Ford Research and Innovation.
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