And he called for a permanent tax credit on high-technology research and development.
Harima Science Garden City, just west of Himeji, is a large centre of high-technology research.
New high-technology research facilities and offices developed after 1970 along the "Silicon Prairie" corridor stretching west of the city.
WHEN the Naval Undersea Warfare Center in New London moved to Newport, R.I., in the 1990's, it took 3,000 high-technology research jobs with it.
Businesses have developed a large cluster of high-technology research and development facilities at Sophia Antipolis, just a few miles northeast of Cannes.
The initiative dates from the Reagan-era Strategic Defense Initiative, which poured billions of dollars into high-technology research in the 80's with the goal of building a space-based missile-defense system.
Until now, desktop videoconferencing has been crippled by lack of bandwidth, or data transmission capacity, said Bob O'Donnell, the research director of device technology for IDC, a high-technology research company in Framingham, Mass.
Fargo has grown especially as a result of a boom in agricultural-implement manufacturing, the development of high-technology research facilities at North Dakota State University, and the general increase in employment opportunities in the service industry.
"We can say that any company that's involved in high-technology research and development is a target for these adversaries".
