Sentence examples for commodity trap from inspiring English sources

"Innovating in services is the escape route from the commodity trap," says Mr Chesbrough.

"Second, many LDCs suffer from a commodity trap, as they depend heavily on commodity production and trade for employment, income, savings and foreign exchange.

The Pearl River delta is packed with small firms that dominate tiny market niches.They also point out that China's sheer size will protect it from the commodity trap.

But many of them are stuck in a "commodity trap", cautions Dieter Ernst of the East-West Centre, a think-tank in Honolulu.

Competition to supply them for general lighting will be fierce, particularly because of determined Asian manufacturers, such as Panasonic and Samsung, which will be pushing hard to get into this business.To avoid a commodity trap, Philips intends to take LEDs into areas where it can create more value than just illuminating dark places.

Whether it is Japan, looking to translate its technological prowess into new growth, China, looking to increase domestic consumption, or Korea, looking to escape the commodity trap, many leading Asian companies are starting to invest time and money in enhancing their service offerings.

When you knowingly pass up value to reach for commodity, you get trapped in a cycle in which you continually need to catch up to your opponents in later rounds of the draft.

It has enabled them to escape the trap of commodity pricing.

In the end HP's foray into 3D printing is first a way to escape the trap of falling commodity 2D printing profits and, second, a way to show the world it still exists.

Designs that were born of joy and exuberance, like Mr. Gehry's Guggenheim, were treated as marketable commodities, which became a kind of trap.

It's a terrible trap: when art becomes an identifiable commodity.