Finance technology

Globalization forces a corporation to look beyond its own national border for finance, technology, raw materials, manufacturing, labor, and marketing. China and India used to have socialist isolationist economies that forbade or discouraged foreign... 

Jon Tetsuro Sumida, In Defence of Naval Supremacy Finance, Technology and British Naval Policy (London Unwin Hyman, 1989), pp. 71—100, 331—7. 

Costs and financing Technology challenges and cost barriers Lack of large capital financing Possibility of stranded assets Perception of a zero-sum "energy game Risks and liabilities faced by utilities ... 

Many well-financed technology development companies are actively pursuing scale-up and commercialization of variations of enzymatic hydrolysis technology for specific pretreated biomass feedstocks. Within the next several years, it is anticipated that enzymatic hydrolysis technologies, as practiced by these companies, will be contributing to commercial production of a range of biofuels and chemical products from lignocellulosic feedstocks. 

What can be done to further increase the share of local production in the Ghanaian domestic market What is fundamentally important for promoting an industry is to put in place policies to provide access to three key aspects of business activity finance, technology and markets. 

The key to this microutility market segment, therefore, is financial in addition to technological. It is likely that any significant success in this market will result directiy from the creation of a suitable financing strategy. 

The planning processes described herein were traditional in nature, with little variation from year to year. Growth was steady, equipment technology advancements were available for the conditions expected, and while utility facilities were capital-intensive, a regulated guaranteed return on investment resulted in adequate financing capital. The utility planner had a vision of the future with acceptable accuracy. 

The next step would be to build a large scale plant of 50 ktonnes per year. However, such an investment needs financing and a commitment of the European PVC industry to this initiative (i.e., a choice for this technology as the feedstock recycling process for PVC waste). Building the plant would take about 5 years. At this stage, it seems that within the PVC industry there is more support for the Linde and Vinyloop processes. 

Heaton, G.R., Financing the Process of Technological Change Innovative Mechanisms for the Transfer of Environmentally Sound Technologies. UNIDO, Vienna, Austria, 1995. 

The management concepts focus on the primary activities in the value chain. Management concepts for support functions such as human resources, information technology or corporate finance are out-of-scope in this work. The integration of support management concepts into value chain management is an area for further research. 

Pollin, R. (1994) Marxian and Post-Keynesian developments in the sphere of money, credit and finance building alternative perspectives in monetary macro-economics , in A. Glick (ed.) Competition, Technology and Money, Aldershot Edward Elgar, pp. 97-117. 

To analyse these problems, the impact of fuel-cell technologies on the service sector was analysed in Germany in a project of the BERTA programme financed by the German Federal Ministry of Economics.3 The possible impacts were examined with regard to job profiles, qualifications and the job market, to prepare the branches involved most optimally. 

The Economist (weekly) London publication covering world news, finance and economics, science and technology, books and arts, and business news. 

U.S. International Trade Commission. 1991. Global competitiveness of U.S. advanced-technology manufacturing industries Pharmaceuticals. Report to the Committee of Finance, U.S. Senate, on Investigation No. 332-302 Under Section 332(g) of the Tariff Act of 1930. 

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