How can private and public organizations ensure funding for technologies that need lots of time and capital to develop?
Success depends on winning over foreign investors and governments, as Congo lacks the skills and capital to develop alone.The president has made some progress, as he will remind voters in the campaign.
Thus, some foreign companies, which hoped to increase sales of computers here, are finding that India is less interested in large-scale imports than in using foreign parts, expertise and capital to develop its own industry.
Economic growth in emerging markets was expected to drive technological innovation and flows of companies, ideas, entrepreneurs and capital to developing countries will increase, the report said.
New products for these companies take many years and tens of millions of dollars to develop putting them beyond the reach of "garage entrepreneurs". Thus DuPont relies on innovative companies that have already invested significant human and financial capital to develop market-ready products.
While sound in principle, the arrangement falls short of providing incentives for sustaining the domestic recycling infrastructure, scarcely covering operating costs and leaving little capital to develop new recycling technologies.
Fostering partnerships between real estate investors, utilities, technology companies, and the city government can help address this weakness and direct private sector capital to develop urban microgrids and renewable distributed generation.
Its predecessor, Ethentica Inc., ran out of cash in May 2001 and filed for bankruptcy reorganization after spending five years and $70 million of venture capital to develop its fingerprinting technology for e-commerce.
SpaceX is the only competitor that currently sees a sufficiently elastic market on the demand side that justifies the costly development of reusable rocket technology and the expenditure of private capital to develop options for that theoretical market opportunity.
The management committee, established to look after the borehole, formed a village savings and loans association (VSLA) – a basic microfinancing system that, for a small regular contribution, allows members to save money and gives them access to capital to develop business ideas, or to use in emergencies.
It's not just because internet connectivity is such a big market (it is), but it also takes a lot of capital to develop and deploy the satellites needed to build a viable service network.
