HCCs were assigned at random to the supervised program, or to the less intensive start-up program.
And technology-related companies were especially keen to use a seemingly bottomless well of investor cash to finance their capital-intensive start-ups.
But the rapid rise of low-cost Chinese manufacturers has made investors — who once envisioned the region's future as Solar Valley — skittish about backing new capital-intensive start-ups.
But I have found that for an early-stage, technology-intensive start-up, government funding can nicely complement a seed-stage equity investment, reducing the equity dilution to the founders, increasing the capital available for commercialization, and providing critical leverage that neither source of funding could provide on its own.
Molycorp Minerals recently went public and CEO Mark Smith is seeking federal loan guarantees to support its capital-intensive start-up.
International investors from more R&D-intensive economies may be more receptive to investing in R&D-intensive start-ups than local investors, because such international investors have previously committed to and experienced such investments.
The intensive degassing started a few days prior to the sub-Plinian eruption which started on 26 January, 2011 (Kinoshita et al., 2011) and the SO2 flux quickly decreased from more than 10 kt/d at the end of January to less than 1,000 t/d in mid March 2011 (Mori and Kato, 2013).
Intensive research started immediately after the plot installations and first results were published after suitable datasets became available (Zhang et al. 2009a; Zhang et al. 2009b; Gao et al. 2010; Zhang et al. 2010a; Zhang et al. 2010b; Liu et al. 2011; Wang et al. 2011).
Jackson, 46, is to undergo a month of intensive treatment starting in two weeks' time.
An intensive orientation starts immediately after they arrive on a specially chartered plane from Irbil.
Mr. Harren, the record executive, said the next step in developing the band would be three months of intensive touring, starting as the opening act for Dwight Yoakam this week.
