"The common theme among the laggers is a lack of a technology base".
"This gets us a reasonable, mature technology base and gives us more confidence to step up to a larger vehicle".
But those who build the Vanquish (mostly by hand) have access to Ford's technology base, and the car is not behind the times where it counts.
Media companies are realizing that they need to have operations in the San Francisco Bay Area in order to tap into the technology base there.
We may need to walk before we can run, and a steady focus on rebuilding our technology base may be more appropriate than leaping into riskier waters.
The UK's technology base withered and no amount of effort to wring out innovations from basic research through commercialization and technology transfer could hope to compensate.
The challenge now is to build on Orlando's existing technology base, according to a recent study of the technology industry here commissioned by the city and county.
And the Economic Development Commission of Mid-Florida, a partnership of government and business, has committed $17.5 million to marketing the city's technology base and vastly expanding it.
Still, for China the big prize from all that reform and investment in China Mobile is the development of its 4G technology base.
The United States must be able to select the systems that will work best, not those that answer political expediency, and we must aggressively reinvigorate the ballistic missile defense technology base necessary to ensure that these systems succeed.
"We don't want to diversify our technology base too much," Mr. Hassan said in an interview here at the World Economic Forum, "but we want to buy companies that have products closer to approval".
