The following year TI purchased a license from Western Electric to manufacture transistors, which Haggerty believed could be integrated into a profitable new generation of consumer goods.
On the other hand, the high cost, life time issues, and, more importantly, the availability of economically profitable hydrogen generation, transportation, and storage technologies are the main drawbacks that limit the commercialisation of fuel cells [2, 5, 9, 10].
Each species has to stay biologically profitable every generation, or else it goes extinct.
He told Forbes.com that Ericsson's second-quarter results had shown a solid performance on Tuesday, but that a turnaround would only be visible when Western operators began investing in profitable third-generation mobile network upgrades most likely in 2009.
We want their farms to be so productive they can count on farming as a profitable business for generations to come.
Mr. Lapidus said he doubted that "the next-generation F-Series in aggregate will be as profitable as the last generation".
The agreed deal, increased with a large cash element, is the latest takeover in the pharmaceuticals industry as companies with older drugs seek to acquire the next generation of profitable medicines.
Shire's unsolicited offer – a direct appeal to shareholders after Baxalta's board spurned its advances – comes amid a frenzy of dealmaking in the pharmaceutical industry, as companies race to discover the next generation of profitable medicines, before current pipelines run dry.
Commercial science and academic inquiry hold fundamentally different goals--the generation of profitable products versus the generation of knowledge--that are often at odds.
To compensate, BMW has raised the price of the MINI somewhat, adding about $1000 to the price, but despite a projected volume of 100,000 units annually worldwide, it's doubtful it will be profitable until the second generation.
