Many of the most important sources of earnings in the new banking landscape, such as cash-management services and flow businesses, are gigantic, technology-heavy operations that are difficult to replicate.
It is no accident that the most widely used annual ranking of the world's research universities, the Shanghai index, is produced by a Chinese university.What lies behind all this is a gigantic exercise in technology transfer.
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It is, after all, rather risky to have staked the success of an overhaul of America's entire health-insurance system on the performance of one gigantic, complex information-technology project.
It took almost a decade for I.B.M. to take its gigantic magneto resistive head technology from the laboratory to the market, Mr. Munce said.
At Japan's ministry of education, culture, sports, science and technology, a gigantic bureaucracy that controls most of the grants for research here, officials say they have recognized that simply throwing huge sums of money at science will not increase scientific output.
It seems that our similarities are most pronounced when it comes to the huge opportunities and gigantic challenges that digital technologies precipitate.
And it is the leader in the still-unproved technology of building gigantic floating vessels to process liquefied natural gas in remote locations.
Scientists and engineers are designing new space vehicles, gigantic rockets and cutting-edge technology engines.
