Other firms plan to ship compressed, rather than liquid, gas—a less capital-intensive process that might make smaller fields profitable.

This was a capital-intensive process, intended to make the function available by look-up, as for the familiar logarithm tables.

The other reason is that the materials can be printed, like inks, in a much less capital-intensive process than traditional silicon-based solar cells.

"Where you have a capital-intensive process," Mr. Fingleton said in an interview, "high wages are not the most important of your costs."

Unlike poppy cultivation, refining is a complicated, capital-intensive process, limiting the number of players with the financial wherewithal to participate.

It's a capital-intensive process made worse by tortuous red tape and other stumbling blocks in places such as Indonesia and the Philippines.

The community even considers some semiconductors assembled by Japanese companies in Europe to be Japanese because capital-intensive processes were performed in Japan.

All equity and potential debt facilities can be done at the project level allowing the corporate parent, Western Wind Energy to remain dilution free during this capital-intensive process.

Modern drug discovery is thus usually a capital-intensive process that involves large investments by pharmaceutical industry corporations as well as national governments (who provide grants and loan guarantees).

But they matter much less in capital-intensive processes such as fabrication where the value of a technician or engineer might depend on how efficiently he or she can operate a $70m tool.

Vashon organizers say the key to their success — a template they hope to share with other communities — was the decision to abandon the capital-intensive process of chartering their own credit union.

Large enterprises clearly have the advantage of mass production in capital-intensive processes and high volume products, but smaller enterprises have an advantage in niche markets and geographically restricted markets.

Therefore, import substitution is playing a part in the relative move away from domestic capital-intensive processes. Identified below in table 4 are selected products that have had large increases in import values in Russia.

Asked about deployment of fibre-optic broadband, which would be a highly capital-intensive process, Mr Darroch said that BSkyB was running trials with BT and was “open minded to possibilities but not rushing into them”.