This is not the first time that an old-line industry has broken into a seemingly unrelated high-tech area.

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The Explorer has a spa, an elegant lounge and dining room and a high-tech presentation area for daily briefings, TED-like lectures and daily video recaps.

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Out-of-staters continue to flock to the financial hub of Charlotte, home to Bank of America, and to the Raleigh-Durham area for jobs in the high-tech and pharmaceutical sectors.

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In his new book, The New Geography of Jobs (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012), Moretti argues that every high-tech job in a metropolitan area in the U.S. translates into five local service jobs--lawyers, cabdrivers, hairdressers, yoga instructors.

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Like Austin, Raleigh is close to a prestigious state university and a profusion of high-tech jobs in the Research Triangle area.

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Its Zhongguancun area saw 23 high-tech IPOs in 2009, against just one for Silicon Valley.

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Samsung already has a smaller chip plant there and likes the area's large high-tech workforce.

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Before a crowd of 400, with music blaring and bright lights pulsing, four entrepreneur finalists, screened for their business plans, competed in a speed round of area code numbers for high-tech centers from west to east.

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The Scranton area contains several sizable defense plants making items like high-tech helmets and smart bombs, and the biggest local employer is a nearby Army depot that repairs military electronics.

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Fuelled by booming aerospace and high-tech industries, population growth was of 1.5% a year in the metropolitan area in the 1990s, and a record 1.98% a year in the 2000s.

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