Sentences with phrase «expensive than innovation»

But is horsepower really more expensive than innovation?

Not exact matches

They get rewarded in many other ways than pure financial returns — including creating stronger suppliers, putting control levers in their industry, testing products, de-risking innovation, and engineering less expensive acquisitions.

There had been trade entrepot before the VOC, the bulk cog (type of sea - going ship) trade in the Hanseatic League, but the VOC innovation was to pool capital to build giant spice freighters - more expensive than a merchant partnership could likely finance (and stand to lose at sea) on their own but more efficient than the cogs and focused on a trade good with more value.

Around 1 hour and 34 minutes in, Frank Geels, a professor of system innovation and sustainability at the University of Manchester, said the key is to track and facilitate bottom - up shifts such as the popularity of household solar panels even when they are somewhat expensive and citizen interest in electric bicycles more than electric cars in China.

Direct public investment in innovation is a faster means to this end than gradually making dirty energy sources expensive so that clean energy sources gradually become cost - competitive.

This has been a sticking point for reform because the justification for patents in pharma, where innovation is slow and incredibly expensive, is much different than in tech where innovations are often obsolete in a year or two.

«All these innovations come at a price, and the cost of the Note8 will be the most expensive version of the series — more so than the ill - fated Note7,» added Lam.