Entry from other industries within the cluster spurs upgrading by stimulating diversity in R&D approaches and facilitating the introduction of new strategies and skills.
Aggressive policy measures like these will also help accelerate adoption of hybrids and electric vehicles, because there's nothing like facing large levies to spur an upgrade.
AT&T's share is up sharply after the company said it would spin off a tracking stock for its wireless and cable unit, spurring an upgrade by Merrill Lynch.
But industry and federal officials said the enactment of an energy law would spur investment in upgrading the transmission infrastructure.
This is not the first time the Administration, as well as members of Congress, have called for ways to spur investment to upgrade our infrastructure.
These upgrades would spur timely sanitary reform and improvements to the public health system of Haiti, which occurred over a century ago in Europe, North America, and most recently in Latin America after the introduction of cholera in the 1990s 133, 14 ).
It will be working on efficiency programs for existing buildings, which can include financing incentives and educational efforts to spur property owners to upgrade.
Apple's strength was particularly notable in that it came during the quarter in which Microsoft finally released the long-awaited Vista version of its Windows operating system, an event that the PC industry was counting on to spur a wave of computer upgrades.
This is a way to create jobs, to create orders for factory-made machinery, to spur innovation by modernizing schools, upgrading research laboratories, easing transportation via high-speed rail and more efficient roads and ports.
KMS could similarly spur sales by, say, offering annual upgrades that included the hottest songs from the past 12 months.
