Sentences with phrase «industry is risk averse»

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A concern was raised that Canadian investors and managers may be too risk averse to be full participants in a highly innovative industry.

[Applied DNA Sciences] just has to convince a risk - averse, highly regulated industry to adopt new technology, and there's always a challenge in that,» Sachleben says.

Every year, innumerable books are written which are too ambitious in some manner or another for the risk - averse mainstream publishing industry.

let's look beyond the fact that these are capital - constrained entities which are, after all, run for profit, highly geared and probably more risk averse than they once were (along with most everyone else)-- and then also look beyond the fact that even they are simply not big enough to replace the entire private mortgage securitization industry which truly fueled the boom and has wilted on the vine in the last year.

But point being is that to bring this game to its full artistic and creative potential requires money, and game industry publishers are generally becoming more and more risk - averse.

Innovation almost always entails risk, and the utility industry is notoriously risk - averse.

I'm a very risk - averse person and I worry much more about the planetary life support system than the bottom line of the coal industry.

Cian Conroy, Catapult's business development director, adds: «The offshore wind industry is quite risk - averse and so demonstration projects [such as Batwind] are a key enabler — both crucial to proving the viability and advancing the technology and also pushing ahead the policy agenda that is needed to support wider - scale use of technologies that will make a measurable difference to the offshore wind's cost of energy.»

Your niche areas might be in specific industries, types of transactions, client type (think: busy, risk - averse entrepreneur; analytical CFO; physiotherapists who rehabilitate the injured) or even a convenient under - served geographic location if you're a general practitioner.

But because the present U.S. regulatory scheme does not allow the industry to be structured the way it is, it has failed to innovate — stagnating over the last 50 years in customer experience due to its weak cost - cutting incentives, making it averse to risk.

This is especially true for legal tech startups faced with limited access to public legal data, a risk - averse profession that is notoriously slow to adopt new technologies, and an entrenched industry model for...

The issue with pension funds» risk averse - strategy is that returns on the safest real estate investments have been declining and there are fewer and fewer of them available for sale, which is why many in the industry expect that pension managers» appetite for risk will gradually increase.