Taiwan's exports, now led by high-technology and machinery manufacturing, raised the island's gross domestic product to about $425 billion in 2010, putting it among the world's top 20 economies on a purchasing power parity scale.
Economists like Joseph Newhouse of Harvard University argue that costs may be higher at American hospitals partly because they use so much high technology -- not only up-to-date machinery but also the latest fancy procedures and drugs.
Investigators have also found documents revealing high-level negotiations between Iraq and North Korea from December 1999 until last year for technology, machinery or equipment needed for a 780-mile-range surface-to-surface missile.
High technology products are defined as the sum of the following products: aerospace, computers-office machines, electronics-telecommunications, pharmacy, scientific instruments, electrical machinery, chemistry, non-electrical machinery, armament.
Nuclear power is a complex, high technology.
Laboratories gleam with the latest high technology.
High technology continued its swoon.
The city's economy is centred on chemicals, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, communication, information technology, machinery production, publishing, and retailing.
Must it incorporate high technology?
"I looked at the employment of technology, machinery controls, and systems automation that could effectively reduce manning aboard amphibious ships".
Japan is a leading nation in scientific research, particularly technology, machinery and biomedical research.
