This left Hoepner with a chance to mass against one of the French Light Divisions (the 3e DLM) and achieve a breakthrough in that sector.
Despite the low quality of many of the troops manning them, the fortifications protecting Aachen and the Ruhr were a formidable obstacle to the progress of American forces, who saw a breakthrough in this sector as crucial, as the terrain behind Aachen was generally flat, and therefore highly favorable to the motorized Allied armies.
Stern says that new innovations to tackle climate change might well dovetail with breakthroughs in other sectors – IT and biotechnology – to create the next wave.
"Robotics will become a critical field that catalyzes technological breakthroughs in numerous sectors such as healthcare, public services, research and at home.
The MIT Water Innovation Prize is a solutions-to-market competition aimed at supporting the next breakthrough in the water sector.
However, the much-hoped-for breakthrough in the service sector, where the wizardry of computers was to have reduced staff time, appears to be one of those popular fictions--similar to the notion that labor and management have worked together in the manufacturing sector to become much more efficient, or the conclusion that new methods of inventory management and control have spurred productivity.
In sectors developing breakthrough products at the frontiers of science, the major process innovations are evolving rapidly.
They can provide a breakthrough in reforming the water sector and attract investments for much-needed infrastructure and human resource development.
The double design process allows overcoming any limitation about the configurations and allowing the definition of the necessary breakthrough innovations, which could revitalize the market in sectors, which appears mostly limited to the substitution.
Similarly, support for R&D is critical to lowering long-run decarbonization costs, and typically targets technological breakthroughs in different economic sectors.
