For twenty years, up until 2001, the big EU agenda was how it could switch out of its crippling agricultural subsidies into high tech innovation.
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So, how does a small business maintain a competitive advantage in the face of pressure from high tech innovation and the primordial human desire for high touch connection?
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For now he is in a Lear-like rage against the storm of high-tech innovation.
Countries the world over have tried to develop a high-tech innovation cluster like Silicon Valley.
Pittsburgh "has transformed itself from the city of steel to a center for high-tech innovation -- including green technology, education and training, and research and development, " the president said.
Progress, Reuters news agency notes, has been slow on two trademarks of Mr Medvedev's modernisation drive: efforts to create a high-tech innovation incubator at Skolkovo, outside Moscow, and to turn the capital into a global financial centre.
We're going to put America back to work by investing in the things that keep us competitive -- education and high-tech manufacturing, science and innovation.
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The past week also saw several remarkable advances in clean tech, starting with MIT's latest innovation, a new type of high-tech fiber that can transmit sound, light, and generate electricity.
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Top talent is the most important source of competitive advantage for every corporation, especially in high tech industries that compete on creativity and innovation.
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Oracle Chief Executive Larry Ellison made waves last year when he said that the high-tech industry has matured and that innovation was deteriorating, which prompted a few slams when the Nasdaq recovered.
Anyone who has benefited from an MRI exam, a new drug therapy or a high-tech surgical procedure knows the value of biomedical innovation.
"As a CEO of a high-tech company, you have mixed feelings about innovation, " said EADS Chief Executive Tom Enders last spring, as the company grappled with cracks inside the wings of its newest plane in the skies, the A380 superjumbo.
Trade with China enables our high-tech companies to stay on the cutting edge of innovation by focusing more resources on design and new breakthrough products.
Its nascent high-tech industry is learning the ropes in the heartland of innovation.
My colleague Kathy Gersch explains that while it may be difficult for your company to generate innovative ideas, high-tech start-ups and other companies we consider to have innovation built into their DNA have just as much difficulty maintaining their innovative edge.
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With its long history of working with high tech vendors, ASUS is able to show its strength and commitment to innovation with a close relationship to three of the leading brands currently producing products with Thunderbolt technology, Elgato, LaCie, and PROMISE.
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If this comes to pass, the high-tech firms that remain may wonder why they fought so long to keep trade barriers when innovation worked even better.
The Starbucks experience underscores the fact that America can successfully compete even in utterly un-high-tech products and services as long as we have an environment that encourages Starbucks-like innovation.
Officials ignore the potential for innovation in consumer products or services and get seduced by the hype of voguish high-tech sectors.
But we simply do not see entire new high-tech sectors emerge without the kind of direct, proactive, and comprehensive suite of investments in innovation, education, infrastructure, manufacturing and market creation that led to each of the 20th century U.S. technology booms mentioned above.
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