Manuel A. Henriquez is the co-founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Hercules Technology Growth Capital.
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Consider HERCULES TECHNOLOGY GROWTH CAPITAL (HTGC, 12) if you want a piece of the Silicon Valley action.
Austin, Denver, Seattle and other centres of high-technology growth are already feeling them.
Hercules Technology Growth Capital (HTGC, 12) and THL Credit (TCRD, 15) all pass my screen and have yields around 8%.
The fact that computers are now being used by people around the globe as a source of entertainment is powering the next stage of technology growth.
As in Texas, metro areas that have good growth prospects through the recovery tend to be hubs for government activity, energy, logistics and, in some cases, technology growth.
Organizations need to set specific goals and build a solid roadmap, outlining goals like lowering IT costs or allocating a percentage of your IT budget to go towards technology growth initiatives over the next year versus maintenance costs.
"We continue to believe that investor anxiety on Monsanto is misplaced as the company is not a cyclical stock but a technology growth machine that should keep rolling in 2009 and beyond, fueled by strong current product demand as well as an unrivaled pipeline, " said Robert Koort, an analyst at Goldman Sachs.
The index comprises four weighted measures: 50% STEM occupation growth, 25% technology industry growth, 12.5% STEM occupation concentration, and 12.5% technology industry concentration.
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All this can make the relationship between trade, technology and growth quite complicated.
It sits atop several big political and social fault lines of our day: trade, technology, growth, education, planning versus chaos and equity versus salary.
We also devote a panel to the prospects for technology and growth in Africa, the continent with most to gain because it now has the least.
Growth within the technology industry has spurred growth in the UK in recent years, but a recent drop in tech production threatens to hamstring the thriving British economy.
Stanford University professor of economics Paul Romer, known for his theories about how knowledge and technology affect economic growth, is now thinking about how technology will make the hidden cost of wasted time less hidden.
UBS, compared with 14% annual growth for information-technology firms and 10% growth for industrial firms.
Venture firm GGV Capital does this with its joint China and U.S. approach to growth technology investing.
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Progressive companies leverage technology to fuel growth and scalability in the omni-channel world.
One worry is that technology and the growth of global institutions that rely on risk models may increase the chance of further storms.
Crystal Systems is a crystalline growth technology company that manufactures high-quality, large area sapphire substrates used in the LED, defense, medical and aerospace industries.
Acquisition continues Disney's strategic focus on creating and monetizing the world's best branded content, innovative technology and global growth to drive long-term shareholder value.
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Our attempts to transfer that technology into higher growth markets was often a struggle except in printers and we did that with a partner (Canon).
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To strengthen cooperation in science and technology that fuels growth, we are going to be pursuing joint research in areas like energy and biodiversity conversation.
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Last year, almost three-quarters of its profits came from high-growth technology.
For any high growth technology operator, one percent change, up or down in any pivotal metric, revenues and margins especially, is rushed to the microscope for analysis.
There is always a lag before new technology lifts productivity growth, because it takes time for firms to reorganise their business to take advantage of new ways of doing things.
The original start-up dream was to work like crazy, bring in angel investors and venture capitalists to productise the new technology and finance growth, before exiting a sizeable company via an initial public offering (IPO) or trade sale.
While Shareholder.com's Gruner doesn't think that the regulation and technology-pushed growth of the late 1990s will return with the new SEC proposals, it's clear that the companies set on the business of disclosure will have plenty of new information to disperse and package to a data-hungry and concerned investing community.
But its existing position in growth markets, technology leadership and well oiled new product development capability nearly assures continued profitbale growth for at least 5 years.
The sector is seen by many as a future area of growth for technology firms.
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