Reconciliation of massive high-tech investment and relatively slow productivity growth in service industries remains an important task for proponents of the new-economy position.

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We need to stop subsidizing oil companies, and use that money to invest in clean energies like wind and solar and high-tech batteries. (Applause.) Those are industries that are already creating new jobs and making us even less dependent on foreign oil.

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He has promised to curb home prices by building 85, 000 new flats a year, as well as boost education and nurture more high-tech industries.

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Updates to the law to address current issues in high-tech industries should not create new issues for the industries for which the patent system functions well, namely drugs and biotechnology.

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