Federal antitrust authorities, especially at the Federal Trade Commission, should keep that in mind as they focus increasingly on high-technology firms.
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Therein lies the origin of university science departments, regional agglomerations such as Silicon Valley and Route 128, and mega-laboratories at leading high-technology firms including Merck, Microsoft and Monsanto.
Leeds is aiming to cement its position as the regional capital and to lure in the same kind of high-technology firms that Sheffield hopes will be its future economic backbone.
For example, the start of Russian-American military cooperation, or the investment of high-technology Western firms in demilitarized enterprises, would force the military-industrial institutions to form a coalition with the Russian government.
Mr Baldwin is one of five investors who have built a high-tech research park on Maui in hopes of luring information-technology firms to the state.
Rajaratnam led what has been described as the largest insider trading ring ever, building a network of high-ranking experts in key technology and consulting firms.
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Jason Tesarz, director of engineering at the high-performance integrator Torrey Point, agreed when asked what technology firms should get rid of.
But exchanges are technology companies now, catering to electronic traders and high-frequency trading firms, and competing with dozens of electronic markets and dark pools.
In such cases, stringent regulation might hinder the adoption of technology by existing firms, or restrict the entry of new high-tech firms.
It is enjoying increased traffic in high-value technology items and in health-care products (an area in which all four firms are developing specialist divisions).
Many Japanese SMEs have the technology and knowledge base, yet are capital-poor with exorbitantly high labor and materials operations costs relative to Chinese firms.
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