Perhaps the problem is that the industry has difficulty generating economies of scale.
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.
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.
The fund believes E-Trade will benefit from a consolidating online trading market, generating economies of scale for surviving players.
Yet its capacity for generating economies of scale for ARVs through savings in production is limited making it difficult to price products competitively.
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.
The president's office issued a statement afterward saying he had been interested in the town's "independent development" and referred to it as "the model of locally generated economy".
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.
And buying stuff for government centrally and in greater bulk will also generate economies worth £6 billion by 2008.
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.
