the amount of investment

基本解释

For a technical innovation, the rational investment condition is that the decreasing amount of variable cost is not less than the amount of investment.
对于某项技术创新，企业的理性投资条件应是技术创新带来的可变成本的降低量不低于用于该项技术创新的投资量。
If the returns of investor equal to the expectation income, the surplus income of company will be zero and the value of the investment will equal to the amount of investment.
也就是说，如果投资人得到的投资回报等于投资人投资的期望收益，公司的剩余收入就等于零，该项投资的价值也就等于该项投资的投资额。
The cost of materials has been one of the limiting factors in the development of the solar power industry, so reducing the amount of investment capital needed to build a solar farm is a big advance.
材料费用是太阳能能源工业发展的一个制约因素，所以能够减少建设太阳能农场的资金投入是一个很大的优势。

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