Countries the world over have tried to develop a high-tech innovation cluster like Silicon Valley.

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"Unlike south-east England, Wales cannot afford to lose such jobs until we are in a position to develop large scale high-tech companies, " he said.

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These countries' politics can be rather rough-edged, but their democratic transition helped them develop a high-prosperity, high-tech economy of just the sort that Vietnam wants.

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The good news is that the big names in nuclear energy -- like Areva, Hitachi, General Electric and Toshiba -- have recently been joined by a bevy of high-tech start-ups seeking to develop advanced nuclear-reactor designs for both fission and fusion energy production.

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The dream of drug developers for years has been to invent new medicines in the manner of biotech hothouse Genentech, now part of Roche, which used cutting-edge biology to develop new kinds of protein and antibody drugs that could mount a high-tech assault on cancer.

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RFP-EZ aims to develop an online marketplace that will make it easier for the government to do business with small high-growth tech companies, and enabling the government to buy better, lower-cost tech solutions from the full range of American businesses.

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In some respects, the 2014 S-Class even surpasses what Bentley offers, as with its high-tech instrument panel and a new user interface that took more than 300 programers several years to develop.

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