Among the technology-intensive manufacturing firms in her study, however, jobs contracted 34.3% in the 2001 to 2009 period.
In other words, there are opportunities for ambitious invention in every technology-intensive industry.
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The company also intends to keep its car and motorcycle tyre activities, on the grounds that these, like telecoms, are technology-intensive and can generate high returns.
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Another cited study, by researchers at Brandeis University, shows that technology-intensive service firms added jobs at a rate of 5.1% from 2001 to 2009, while employment overall shrank by .5%.
And, what industry is not technology-intensive?
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The region has been unable to match the success of the Yangtze and Pearl River deltas in attracting investment in low-technology, labour-intensive private industry.
"The industry is very technology- and capital-intensive, " says Go, who is a chemical engineer.
Because of the capital-intensive technology component and the highly-integrated carrier relationships, it seemed inconceivable that any other company could break into the handset wars.
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Global warming will shift from vague concern to serious business opportunity, as local and national governments worldwide use taxes, regulations and incentives to push less carbon dioxide-intensive technology.
Critically, GM also has the scale, technology and reach that a capital-intensive, highly competitive global industry demands.
And in the 21st Century, IP-intensive industries like technology, advanced manufacturing and biopharmaceuticals will play an increasingly dominant role in our economy.
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The biggest names in the business have their brightest engineers rolling out ways to unify the great hardware hodgepodge, rationalize wasteful resources and automate the labor-intensive side of technology.
It has happened because rich-world companies have replaced workers with new technology to boost productivity and shifted production from labour-intensive products such as textiles to higher-tech, higher value-added, sectors such as pharmaceuticals.
We are witnesses and participants to a perfect storm of enormous and unstoppable trends triggered by the Internet, by Americans downsizing their lifestyles and increasing their savings, and of dynamic technology displacing capital intensive, asset-oriented investments.
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In high income countries, physical activity dwindles as people use more technology and are less engaged in labour-intensive work.
Equipped with the latest high-performance mobile processor technology, the all-in-one runs whisper-quiet even when performing intensive tasks.
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With most of the work done by hand without any help from modern technology, its production is a lengthy and labour-intensive process.
"We're using the best technology available today, but this is really people-intensive work, " says Horodniceanu, who supervises a team of thousands of workers on any given day.
As technology becomes more sophisticated, expensive and research and development-intensive, greater emphasis is placed on finding differentiation through innovative, regionally appropriate development of core processes and products to address those end markets, as well as our own.
Founded in 2001 by a pair of Stanford grads, Blue River Technology is using that money to develop an alternative to chemical-intensive agriculture, which is both labor intensive (even with all that spraying fields still need to be weeded) and environmentally toxic.
By applying this same technology to the enterprise, even media-rich content and bandwidth-intensive applications can be delivered instantly, simply and securely to mobile desktops and devices via the cloud.
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That minimal upward trend may well turn negative soon as a result of recent advances in energy technology and the discovery of massive natural gas deposits that can replace carbon-intensive coal power.
Sprint says 4G technology can be up to 10 times faster than 3G, making it a good fit for bandwidth-intensive applications like streaming video, transmitting medical images and e-mailing training manuals.
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