However we felt it still important to include the data covering the industries that most identify with the high-tech economy.
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Britain took 400 years to move from an agricultural to a high-tech economy - Korea has done it in just 40.
At the same time, the biotech industry has become a key driver of our high-tech economy, supporting 1.3 million high-quality jobs.
Everyone acknowledges that high technology is immensely expanding productivity, but bean counters haven't figured out in this service-cum-high-tech economy how to measure that.
Tonight, I'm announcing a new challenge to redesign America's high schools so they better equip graduates for the demands of a high-tech economy.
"The commitment to new spending on scientific infrastructure is important, as part of the UK's push to be a modern, high-tech economy, " he said.
So from the time our kids start grade school, we need to equip them with the skills they need to compete in a high-tech economy.
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.
Fact: The economic powerhouse that is the Mississippi high-tech economy is just now emerging from an usually long slump and needs protection now more than ever.
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It has since become a reference to any region with a high-tech economy Silicon Alley ( New York), Silicon Prairie (Midwest), Silicon Forest (Northwest), Silicon Slopes (Utah), Silicon Hills (Texas).
Rather, I think the root cause lies in families of origin, where the critical thinking, reading, and listening skills so essential to success in a global high-tech economy, need to be modeled from the earliest possible age.
Antitrust authorities, however, especially of late at the FTC, seem to view the high-tech economy with suspicion, seeing any successful firm as likely to be standing in the way of economic growth by dominating its slice of the market.
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But such forward thinking has transformed South Korea from one of the poorest countries in Asia to an advanced high-tech economy that's home to major tech firms like Samsung and LG, as well as the most wired population on the planet.
It did well shifting from a metal-bashing industrial economy in the 1970s to a high-tech and service economy by the 1990s, just across the river from Manhattan.
South Korea over the past four decades has demonstrated incredible growth and global integration to become a high-tech industrialized economy.
We need a high-tech, modern economy that can compete with the world's emerging giants.
But while the good times are back--the tech-heavy Nasdaq hit a six-and-a-half-year high last week--tech trade and new-economy publications have not bounced back.
But the presence of multinationals there has not helped produce many local, high-tech companies, making the economy over-reliant on one type of firm.
The nature of the relationship of the state to free enterprise hasn't changed simply because our economy has become high-tech, nor because politicians feel a need to react to a downturn.
But whereas the Texan economy diversified into high-tech, Louisiana turned to gambling, with disastrous results: politicians were bought off by companies looking for licences for land and riverboat casinos, and the state became split between the pro-gambling populism of Mr Edwards and the anti-gambling sentiments of the good government crowd, most of them Republicans.
The biggest gains are in new-economy sectors such as high tech and communications.
With genuine deregulation, privatization, tax simplification and deep tax cuts, Israel's entrepreneurship in the high-tech arena could spread to the rest of the economy, quickly lowering the 8% unemployment rate.
The fact is, even in this depressed world situation, economies that are export oriented, high-tech and can expand domestic services - including mixed-economy health services - are growing.
On the one hand, the country recognizes the Internet's importance towards developing a modern knowledge economy, and has set up a high-tech zone called the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) to drive the country's online initiatives.
While Japan was investing in high-tech industries the United States was simultaneously accelerating the financialization of its economy, creating trillions of dollars of paper wealth that has largely vanished over the last two years.
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Currently, the Belarusian economy is characterized by an over-concentration on high-tech military production.
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Thanks to our fundamental high-tech strengths and the prospect of a tax cut, the U.S. economy may claw its way back to a 3% growth rate.
The chief rap against Greenspan is that he loosened money too much after the high-tech bubble burst in 2000--01 and kept it loose even when the economy began to recover vigorously in 2003.
Bits of the economy, such as the mobile-telecoms industry and some other high-tech areas, continue to prosper.
For all the seductive talk of rebalancing the economy, of reviving manufacturing, of supporting the creative industries, high-tech start-ups or whatever, the best thing that any new government can do for enterprise is to restore the public finances and stop dominating the credit markets.
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