But few people have the patience or technical know-how to do this effectively.
When a company hires a troubleshooting specialist, clearly that candidate needs to have more technical know-how than a salesperson.
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They look like extremely simple models, but in fact these are works that require vast amounts of technical know-how.
There was a much more positive story to tell in professional services, including legal, accounting, engineering and technical know-how.
Dow contributes the technical know-how for producing plastics and chemicals, while its partners provide low-cost feedstocks and access to new markets.
But if you have the technical know-how, why not try your hand at creating the next great gadget or electronic service?
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Chinese firms are going global for the usual reasons: to acquire raw materials, get technical know-how and gain access to foreign markets.
Last week in London I got to meet Tom and Naomi from Occupy who pointed out that protest movements have great technical know-how.
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Daimler has the technical know-how to develop lean and clean engines, but with the financials in such a weak state it cannot tie up the capital.
Zhong Hua, chief financial officer of the publicly traded arm of China's Cnooc, said in an interview that the company's U.S. exposure will advance its technical know-how.
Plenty of business owners and entrepreneurs, like Mr. Vichich, are comfortable running a company in the fast-growing mobile-apps market, but lack the technical know-how to build mobile apps on their own.
For students with a more creative bent, the emphasis will be on blending technical know-how with top-notch communications savvy, according to Susie Hall, President of Vitamin T, a creative staffing agency.
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What's missing is not the technical know-how.
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The Ministry of Defense has been against the idea of raising foreign investment, questioning if it really would result in the transfer of technical know-how, and also raising concerns about foreign companies stopping production in India in times of war.
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"But all the vocal pyrotechnics and technical know-how on offer can't put right the vapidity at the core of a plot that could have been written on the back of an interval drinks order, " wrote Matt Wolf of The Arts Desk.
There's the slick salesman who needs billions of dollars in capital and technical know-how from the outside in order to exploit a quadrillion cubic feet of proven natural gas reserves (50 years' U.S. consumption) and 300, 000 miles of pipeline crisscrossing Russia from the Baltic border east to Tomsk in Siberia and from Uzbekistan north toward the Arctic Circle.
The investment allows us to benefit from the fast-growing Internet market in Russia, as well as to leverage our technical and operational know-how to strengthen the leadership position of DST and explore new business opportunities in the Russian-speaking Internet markets.
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Based on its decades of experience in growth and development, Samsung will also provide its technical expertise and know-how for developing materials on ESD.
The SBA also offers some training, technical assistance and "know-how" courses, but this should not be the role of the federal government, and it isn't needed.
Properly constructing and operating wells is a highly technical enterprise, but most natural-gas producers know how to do it.
Technical development is resulting in a gradual loss of traditional know-how, and tourism is jeopardizing the Gelede by turning it into a folklore product.
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