Logitech's Io pen (about $170), for example, is a marvel of high-tech engineering.
In an attempt to encourage entrepreneurs, Queen's University has established an arm to commercialise promising ideas, particularly in high-tech engineering.
Its high-tech engineering division, Protein Technologies International, is working on crops with enhanced nutritional properties, such as cholesterol-lowering soyabeans.
Italy churns out leaders in consumer and luxury goods, and in high-tech engineering and manufacturing: think of Prada, Ferrero or Ducati.
The event, which started five years ago in San Mateo, Calif., captures the intersection of high-tech engineering, arts and crafts, and the carnival culture of the Burning Man festival.
The company is a sprawling mix of different businesses, including an employees' social club and a high-tech engineering design boutique (which is about to be bought out by its managers).
In the late 1970s and '80s Jahn made his mark, designing extravagant buildings that combined historical and contextual references the central tenets of postmodern architecture with high-tech engineering solutions.
The newly flourishing institution of books on tape, for all its reliance on the latest in digital, high-tech engineering and distribution, has something primordial about it--a return to first relations (a teller, his listener, the tale --and, in factale --andng specifically Homeric (unable tale --and teller, we linteners unconsciously project our own blindness onto him).
Our problem is that we do not have a big enough industrial base, not entrepreneurial figures to expand it – though we do have successes, often foreign-financed or owned, like pharmaceuticals, high-tech engineering and (dare I add?) even banks that remain innovative world leaders.
