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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Lastly Stiglitz worries that increased investment in capital intensive technology will contribute to a jobless recovery.
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.
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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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.
Swift Congressional approval of these agreements will help American companies gain greater access to these markets and sell more of their products and services abroad, including high technology and intellectual property intensive products.
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"The industry is very technology- and capital-intensive, " says Go, who is a chemical engineer.
The major impasse to successfully growing a clean technology company is the capital intensive nature of the business.
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.
Critically, GM also has the scale, technology and reach that a capital-intensive, highly competitive global industry demands.
In high income countries, physical activity dwindles as people use more technology and are less engaged in labour-intensive work.
Over the last three years, the United States and Russia have been able to make significant progress on a wide range of issues, including the New START Treaty, the 1, 2, 3 Agreement, the work we've done on Russia's accession to the WTO, and setting up a presidential process whereby issues of trade and commerce, science, technology are all discussed at a much more intensive level.
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.
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.
This technology allows users to use these products even in write intensive applications by over provisioning the drive storage to provide higher endurance (that is buying a SSD with more capacity than needed for the application and using this extra storage capacity to create a longer endurance product).
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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.
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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Investing in green measures and green technology is actually good for the economy because a green economy is an incredibly labour intensive economy.
However, the intensive training required, the low income generated, popularization of computer printing technology and diminishing enthusiasm for compiling genealogies have all contributed to a rapid decrease in the number of craftspeople.
As oil production falls and oil prices rise, research will become more intensive as industry puts both feet forward to develop the next generation of energy technology.
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