The military's preferred approach to building its new capabilities has been to adapt readily available commercial technology to keep costs down.

Executives in the computer industry said the new technology could lead to important commercial technologies.

For example, the design of a new pain-killing drug is commercial technology.

But he said the Japanese would not necessarily have to offer commercial technology in return.

But commercial technology is now good enough for many other jobs.

But it is the universities that perform over half of the nation's basic research, which industry eventually develops into commercial technology.

It is nearly impossible to find a commercial technology that, once developed, has not been put into use.

Nor is it a commercial technology, to be sold for profit.

China's strength in commercial electronic technology is an important aspect of the art world here.

"But it's been developed to the point where it's right on the verge of being a commercial technology."