Other cities, both in Europe and without, are looking at the high-tech sector to provide economic stimulus.
It has a maturing high-tech sector and many Federal government jobs, which are more stable in recessions.
Much of the selling has been by American investors, whose Japanese investments are concentrated in the high-tech sector.
It included specific tax credits to encourage business investment, especially in the high-tech sector, and to reward job creation.
Costa Rica's reputation for relative transparency and order has brought in a lot of foreign capital in recent years, particularly in the high-tech sector.
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The much-reviled high-tech sector grew by 10.4% over the same period.
The cities of Texas are among the fastest growing in America, as people have moved in from both coasts to take jobs in the booming high-tech sector.
But the reasons are not unique to the high-tech sector.
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As India's high-tech sector boomed in the build-up to the Y2K scare (the computer glitch that later fizzled), Manglik began to imagine returning to India once his daughters finished college.
These have come to assume a growing proportion of many companies' value, particularly in the high-tech sector where the most valuable assets walk in and out of the front door every day.
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The report's author, analyst Ben Broadbent, noted that a 0.9% reduction in UK manufacturing output in January was the sharpest fall since August 1997, and the high-tech sector was to blame for most of the drop.
The recession has exacerbated a long-term trend, says Mr Gill, who thinks many venture-capital investors have been put off the high-tech sector by a combination of uncertain returns and memories of the dotcom bust at the turn of the century.
The two other verticals, the high-tech and the public sector, also posted good revenue growth over Q4 2010.
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The lowest percentage of women investors was in the non-high tech products and services sector at eight percent.
It's also Israel's economic engine, home to a thriving high-tech industry and buoyant banking sector that helped the country escape the recent global financial crisis relatively unscathed.
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We have to make sure that in every sector, from manufacturing to clean energy to high-tech to biotech, that we recognize the private sector is going to be the driving force.
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Her appointment follows a series of high-profile CEO changes in the tech sector, with Meg Whitman recently named to succeed Leo Apotheker as CEO at Hewlett-Packard, and Tim Cook having succeeded Steve Jobs at Apple.
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Two, military high-tech has generally transferred well into the private sector.
In general, the real estate sector has been slow to adopt high-tech options.
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The travel sector is as bouncy as the high-tech field, if for somewhat different reasons, but it is easy to fail in either.
James founded SiliconSlopes.com, a private-sector initiative that promotes the interests of high-tech in Utah.
But it will also act as a complement to the rich service-sector economies of the OECD and the high-tech economies of East Asia.
Moroney suggests mixing the virtues of dividend stocks and the relative strength this year of the technology sector by tapping into a high dividend-payer in tech.
From the mom-and-pop storefront shops to the high-tech startups that keep America on the cutting edge, small businesses create two out of every three new private-sector jobs in America.
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