The global downturn in high-tech activity also had a devastating economic effect.
"Semiconductor is the underpinning of quite a lot of high-tech activity, and a lot of activity you wouldn't classify as high-tech," said Mr. Brill, a partner in New Light Ventures.
France's attempt to transform Brittany from one of its more backward regions into a hive of high-tech activity failed dismally for an obvious reason: entrepreneurial firms cluster in particular places.
Taiwan bustles with high-tech activity — almost a trans-Pacific copy of Silicon Valley.
Hogarty is part of Nova Labs, a hive of high-tech activity and a specimen of the so-called maker phenomenon.
Provo is a magnet for much of Utah's high-tech activity, fueled in part by the presence of Brigham Young University.
We contribute to knowledge in a double sense: by the application of a cost accounting design methodology to a high-tech activity, and by the design of a proposal of cost model to calculate the cost of digital preservation.
"We see Harwell as a campus which is going to provide a combination of world-class science, high-tech activity, and business opportunity," said David Willetts, the UK's science minister.
The second finding, of a new region just west of London, corroborates an earlier study of a 'Western Crescent' of high-tech activity [30]: a cohesive area that generally scores extremely well in measures of economic activity and low levels of deprivation, as measured by Gross Value Added (GVA) and qualifications (NVQ) for Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, and Oxfordshire [31].
They can keep doing the low-tech work and at the same time develop more high-tech activities, just as America watched its mid-western states become a rustbelt as Silicon Valley started to boom.One important role for the big IT companies in India and China is to provide talented engineers with the opportunity to gain experience in management before they set up on their own.
"We are convinced that Halifax--with its strong R&D base and growing presence of high-tech activity--has what it takes to form a dynamic technology cluster," Carty tells Next Wave.
