Nowadays, most of the emerging industries are high-tech ones, while traditional industries based on fundamental research often lag behind.
Temístocles Montás, the economy minister, says the country needs to develop higher-value tourism and swap textile factories, vulnerable to Chinese competition, for high-tech ones.
European urbanism and its celebrity architects, including the high-tech ones that super-articulate their structures, are more respectful of context.
But the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose by 2.2%, as investors speculated in conventional shares, deciding that high-tech ones were still overvalued.In this section MONEY AND INTEREST RATES FISCAL HEALTH TRADE, EXCHANGE RATES AND BUDGETS STOCKMARKETS Reprints.
Now that some divisions, especially high-tech ones, are being spun off, patents are being taken more seriously.This is welcome news for in-house inventors whose patents have been pushed aside to gather dust.
In America, this was underlined by a shift from smokestack industries and into high-tech ones, and by firms' efforts to adapt themselves to new information technology and more assertive investors.
He notes with approval that Georgia, Kentucky and North Carolina give technology firms vouchers to spend at local universities.Several of the blessings that attract low-tech firms to the South also attract high-tech ones: the weather, business-friendly state governments and the fact that a techie moving to Raleigh can buy four houses for what one cost him in San Francisco.
By combining the traditional materials with high-tech ones, children as young as 9 can invent interactive jewelry, fanciful creatures that dance, musical sculptures and more, said Mitchel Resnick, a professor of learning research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab.
Notice first there are two sorts of belief-inducing technologies distinguishable: "low-tech" technologies and "high-tech" ones.
Low-tech technologies consist of propositional attitudes only, while high-tech ones employ nonpropositional techniques along with various propositional attitudes.
The results suggest that medium-tech sectors contribute to the knowledge base of an economy more than high-tech ones.
