Passive waste water treatment technologies based on ecological principles for organic pollutants are gaining gradual acceptance in many industrial sectors in the western world.
However, there are a number of businesses in this sector with an explicit environmental focus, including wind turbine manufacturer Hansen Transmissions and Johnson Matthey, with a portfolio of technologies based around catalysts that reduce local pollutants for transport and industrial processes.
Globally, medical device industry is innovative and a technology-based sector consists of predominately SMEs.
Jurgen Maier, boss of Siemens in the UK and chairman of the North West Business Leadership Team, which published the manifesto, said that if the Government's Northern Powerhouse project is to succeed, the region needs to promote its science and technology base and attract new private-sector investment.
"Wales has existing strengths in space technology and the spaceport could serve to further embed and grow this technology base as part of the UK's vision for the sector," she added.
According to Patrick Imbach, head of KPMG's high growth technology group, based in Shoreditch, the government should prioritise the Tech sector.
Today there are hundreds of funds that track all manner of indexes, including many based on sectors, such as technology or health care.
In Japan's Kansai region, where many of the firms in these sub-sectors are based, technology managers have become obsessed with this problem.Japanese firms supplanted American rivals in the 1970s and 1980s by devising better ways to make electronic devices that had been invented elsewhere.
Vindigo, a wireless-technology company based in New York, said yesterday that it had laid off some employees because of its failure to meet revenue projections, which it attributed to the economic slowdown in the technology sector.
That's where Imagination Technologies is based.
The import-substitution approach defined "industrialization" rather narrowly as the expansion of the modern manufacturing sector based on capital-intensive technology.
