World-Readiness and Translation Economics

In an attempt to become world-ready within the translation and localization industry, how realistic is it to think that we can just add more capacity and skills into our existing hybrid economic model to generate a bigger global business impact?

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jaap-van-der-meer

Jaap van der Meer founded TAUS in 2004. He is a language industry pioneer and visionary, who started his first translation company, INK, in The Netherlands in 1980. Jaap is a regular speaker at conferences and author of many articles about technologies, translation and globalization trends.

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