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"The Biotech Investor's Bible is a guide to the essentials of biotechnology investment. Along with the most promising investing strategies, George Wolff provides an overview of an industry that many observers expect to emerge over the next century as the largest and most important business sector in the world." "Wolff first focuses on the unique financial forces that drive biotech markets. With this approach, you'll gain a better understanding of...
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Since September 11, 2001, the airline industry has faced severe setbacks and economic losses. With heightened security measures and increased sales, it is finally stabilizing and making room for new jobs and opportunities. The U.S. Department of Labor predicts that the air transportation industry will grow by 12 percent over the 2002-2012 period. The aviation industry consists of three major areas: Air transportation, aerospace manufacturing, and...
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"If, in the ancient world, it was guns and germs and steel that determined the fates of people and nations, in modern times it is electricity. No other form of power translates into affluence and influence like it. Though demand for it is growing exponentially, it remains one of the most difficult forms of energy to supply and to do so reliably. Storage is even harder. This paradox has shaped global politics, affected the outcome of wars, and underlies...
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This text explores hi-tech industry policy in China, R & D activity, the emergance of industrial clusters, the R & D activities of multinational corporations in China and the prospect of commercialization of hi-tech achievements, with the aim of producing an analysis of the development of the hi-tech sector.
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America's fastest-growing cutting-edge companies, high technology businesses, have been celebrated and popularized but not well understood. This comprehensive examination of high technology businesses explores over 100 high technology ventures and another 200 high technology firms to discover what work is done, who does it, how it is done, and the business performance results of these activities.
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"The riveting, untold story of the men who are transforming global energy. In five years, the United States has seen a historic burst of oil and natural gas production, easing our insatiable hunger for energy. A new drilling process called fracking has made us the world's fastest growing energy power, on track to pass Saudi Arabia by 2020. But despite headlines and controversy, no previous book has shown how the revolution really happened. The Frackers...
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"In Charging Ahead, acclaimed energy and natural resources specialist John J. Berger shows how renewable energy sources, energy efficiency, and electric vehicles, when used together, can sustain in healthy economy and give us back a clean environment. Dr. Berger projects an inspiring yet realistic vision of this energy future and profiles the leading energy scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs now creating the solar, wind, geothermal, electric...
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How did a small Southwest town transform itself into a hotbed of research science, advanced technology, and money? Tracking key figures in Santa Fe's emerging industries, science journalist Ed Regis explains how entrepreneurial scientists are using complexity theory and powerful, experimental computer programs to create practical--and profitable--applications. Their efforts to convert vast, diverse data, whether chemical or biological or computational,...
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