On the one hand, it's often more profitable for developed countries to export waste than to pay the higher domestic processing fee.
Vast areas of tropical forests have already been cleared to make room for palm-oil plantations, which are one of the most profitable cash crops for developing countries.
Actively marketing the value of BI both to top management and to business users helps ensure adequate support for developing BI and profitable use of BI after it's developed and provides incentives for people to use the new BI capabilities that have been developed.
Moreover, they might serve as a foundation for developing decision support systems (DSS) that aid managers in planning and designing profitable or cost efficient assembly and transfer lines.
Gasoline retailing, for instance, tends to be initially more profitable in developing countries than in developed markets, but the margins start to tighten after about 18 months.
As outlined by Rodrik (2007, pp. 117 118), government could implement a broad range of incentive programs, including subsidizing costs of "self discovery" of profitable new products, developing mechanisms for higher-risk finance, internalizing coordination externalities, public R&D, subsidizing general technical training, and taking advantage of national abroad.
It's younger, of course, and less profitable to develop for at the moment, but it's growing and with more powerful hardware coming out almost weekly, it really is just a matter of time (we hope) until we get some seriously cool games on the thing.
The supply of innovative products matched by the demand for these new services means there are profitable business models developing around mobile phone applications and tools.
There are clinical trials underway for a West Nile vaccine, though it remains to be seen whether companies will find it profitable to develop a vaccine for a disease that is relatively rare and usually benign.
It is far more profitable to develop long-term medication for chronic conditions, and unsurprisingly this is what drug companies prefer to do.
