| A constant process of leapfrogging takes place between industrial and post-industrial economies. |
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| Quite often you find that you end up leapfrogging buses as they stop to pick up passengers. |
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| So when she gets into the job market, graduates younger than her are leapfrogging for positions. |
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| In effect, China is leapfrogging the traditional land-line telephone stage of communications development, going directly to mobile phones. |
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| For instance, Microsoft is working on a search system with the intention of leapfrogging Google. |
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| Future revenues are needed to fund development expenditure for future products, foster innovation and allow for a potential leapfrogging effect. |
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| If Canada is to go from 15th to 5th, then it's got to take some leapfrogging advantages. |
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| Efforts will also be made to support technology leapfrogging in areas like energy and transport. |
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| Developing countries can avoid the pollution of industrialization by leapfrogging obsolete technologies. |
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| In the modernization process, for instance, Japan mostly bypassed the stage of gas lighting, leapfrogging from the kerosene light to electricity. |
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| The American Black Ducks move in groups of 20 to 100, leapfrogging each other from one area of good food to another. |
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| Second, public institutions must financially support technological leapfrogging in developing countries. |
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| Actually this was an amazing attempt at leapfrogging everyone. |
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| With the use of uplifting essential oils their metabolisms could be fooled into leapfrogging hibernation, believing they had already arrived in the scent of spring. |
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| In other words it was leapfrogging the old when-to-invest-in-a-new-fab problem by buying additional existing capacity, doubtless at a discount, from a distressed rival. |
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| Farage is standing in Tory-held Thanet South, where he is confident of leapfrogging all three established Westminster parties, to win. |
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| More recently there have been some examples of leapfrogging in communications technology. |
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| Clean technologies provide many leapfrogging opportunities that stretch beyond the environmental sphere. |
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| We are more innovative than ever before because we are leapfrogging by getting ideas that it took generations of people to form in other places. |
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| As it sits now, the current paradigm of this group is leapfrogging, at the cutting edge of it. |
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| Isolated investment in ICT does not permit leapfrogging to higher growth rates. |
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| Furthermore, least developed countries need preferential access to clean technology, and there is a strong case for assisting them in technological leapfrogging towards clean technologies. |
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| They can, however, choose to approach economic development differently by leapfrogging directly to more energy-efficient and sustainable solutions. |
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| Prices for electrical energy are leapfrogging in Russian regions. |
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| Italy only has three of its restaurants in the list this year, but its highest placed entry, Osteria Francescana, is up into second place, leapfrogging Noma. |
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| A coordinated Open Courseware initiative would therefore enable the University of Mauritius to build up networks, both local and international, and would be an opportunity for catching up and leapfrogging. |
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| Can we expect educational leapfrogging, in which a technology-dominated system of education can be established more rapidly and more economically than conventional approaches to strengthen education? |
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| Lawrence river, building communities that remained stable for long stretches, rather than leapfrogging west the way the English and later Americans did. |
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| This year's technologies are leapfrogging last year's designs. |
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