When outside funding is required, innovators become highly dependent on their resource providers.
But he disregards the economic reality that the world has become highly dependent on electronic products produced in Taiwan and China, often by Chinese affiliates of Taiwanese companies.
Over the past decades, conventional agriculture has become highly dependent on mineral nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium fertilization to increase production and meet world demand1.
Hospitals, deprived of many of their subsidies, have become highly dependent on medicine sales, income from which now typically accounts for more than 40% of revenue (see chart).
Small airports lack the capacity to serve more than a handful of airlines, so they often become highly dependent on those few for revenue.
The industry is a volatile one, subject to seasonal and longer-term shifts in fish stocks, foreign competition, weather conditions, and credit availability; it has thus become highly dependent on government regulation and support.
The purpose of this study is to examine the potential for development of an agro-industrial symbiosis network (ISN) from the construction of a biorefinery in the Norte Fluminense region (Brazil) – a region that has become highly dependent on oil & gas revenues but still has a tradition in agriculture and agro-industry.
The unique runtime characteristics of Flash, combined with its incredible reach, has led these types of apps to become highly dependent on Flash, and massive amounts of the broadband economy are dependent on it.
Robotaxi service will allow those seniors to continue to live in their existing homes where in the past they have had to move into senior homes or become highly dependent on their children.
This process started in 1917 as an economic development tool, but the island's economy has continued to deteriorate while the Puerto Rican government has become highly dependent on the revenue stream.
The term knowledge economy or knowledge society is mostly used to refer to the fact that after agricultural and industrial society the world has entered a phase in which growth and development has become highly dependent on advances in knowledge.
