The shock has propelled some moneyed buyers to consider a new, high-tech type of residence: the self-sufficient safe house that can withstand storms and power outages.

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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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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.

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As companies like Pandora (NYSE:P) and LinkedIn (NYSE:LNKD) have pulled-off great IPOs, tech entrepreneurs are definitely gunning for this type of exit.

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The SME board was launched in 2004 to assist smaller growth companies in China to raise capital, and the Shenzhen stock exchange added the ChiNext board, a NASDAQ-type exchange for high-growth, high-tech start-ups, in 2010.

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High Tech, VC funded, working 120-hours a week, please pass the engineers type start-ups?

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All Alan is really accomplishing is punishing his friends (Dow-type companies) while trying to get at his enemies (high-tech suppliers).

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