Little understood but potentially very significant for multiple industry sectors, this next wave of technology will create more jobs than it will destroy, according to the majority of business leaders Accenture has surveyed.
The results and effects of the Fukushima Daiichi accident show that the passive safety systems, which require no user input in order to operate, are very significant in nuclear industry.
"There's been a very significant reduction in the industry's legal risk," said David Adelman, a Morgan Stanley analyst.
"A growing number of platform players, whether Oracle, CommerceOne, Ariba or Ventro, are all going to be chasing very large companies to partner with to take over a very significant piece of an industry's purchasing," said Bruce Temkin, an analyst with Forrester Research.
This magnitude of energy reduction is very significant in the automotive industry, especially when considering the number of vehicles in use in today's transportation sector.
Walter McCormick Jr., president and chief executive of the United States Telecom Association, a telephone carrier trade group, said it viewed the cable industry as "very significant competition".
Already this year catastrophes such as the Chilean earthquake and the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, combined with low investment returns and weakening rates, will have a "very significant" impact on the insurance industry.
Experimentally determined bubble size distributions for these bubble hazes would be of very significant value to the brewing industry in terms of product control and development.
It had a very significant effect on the duck industry, especially in Southeast Asia where duck farming is most popular and mosquitoes are active.
Real-time production monitoring in oil and gas industry has become very significant particularly as fields become economically marginal and reservoirs deplete.
