REPUBLICANS, some of them at least, seem to have put together a plan to generate economy recovery that isn't likely to endear them to the American public.
Their human masters do not specify the route; instead, the robots are programmed to identify and avoid obstacles themselves".Robots in the first generation helped to generate economies of scale," says Navi Radjou, an analyst at Forrester, a consultancy.
Perhaps the problem is that the industry has difficulty generating economies of scale.
And buying stuff for government centrally and in greater bulk will also generate economies worth £6 billion by 2008.
New York City is critical to Edison because the company's success depends largely on size, generating economies of scale in buying textbooks, computers and the like to help lower costs and generate profits.
Edison predicts that the company will become profitable when it signs up enough schools to generate economies of scale; Whittle has estimated that, to break even, Edison must triple the number of schools it runs.
By creating a market sufficiently large to generate economies of scale, they can drive down production costs and, once a certain threshold is crossed, spark potentially explosive growth constrained only by the size of the labor pool.
The best hope for generating economies of scale lies in acquiring firms that buy media space such as airtime or ad pages one such firm, Aegis, is said to interest WPP.
Sharing the buying of such services can not only generate economies of scale, it can also open up the possibility of greater integration between the organisations' services – the PSN authorities now have a single telephone numbering system across all 14 bodies, with numbers assigned to staff rather than desks.
The fund believes E-Trade will benefit from a consolidating online trading market, generating economies of scale for surviving players.
