This distinction is important because knowledge-based economic activity tends to be subject to high degrees of uncertainty, asymmetric information and spillovers of newly created knowledge, making access to external sources of finance difficult.
"Of course, part of the reason so many members of the public find finance difficult is because it is difficult – and, sometimes at least, it is made deliberately so.
Their accounts are not available for inspection, making scrutiny of their finances difficult.
The meter made balancing limited student finances difficult, and talking to other students, we soon realised we were paying way above what we should have been.
By the end of the 1980's, Professor Das said, the collapse of Michael Milken's junk-bond empire had made financing difficult for fast-growing companies.
Geothermal plants have no fuel costs, but upfront costs are high, and verifying the potential of a site, as with an oil well, can take a long time, making financing difficult in the current economic climate.
That sale was originally planned for earlier this month, but was put off because "adverse capital markets" after the terrorist attacks made financing difficult, a Teligent lawyer, Matthew Kleiman, told Judge Burton R. Lifland of United States Bankruptcy Court on Oct. 12.
"If 40% of working-age tenants on housing benefit find finances difficult to manage before the cuts, the impact on arrears [after the reforms are introduced] could be significant," Watson says.
Traditional leasing companies typically don't value any residual in electric vehicles, which makes financing difficult.
It's not unusual for creative entrepreneurs to find finances difficult to understand, intimidating, or just a numbing bore.
As I mentioned, the functioning of that market deteriorated significantly in September, with borrowers finding financing difficult to obtain, and then only at high rates and very short (usually overnight) maturities.
