This effective health care has made utilization of the high-tech developments relatively rare, and it has led to the closure of many hospitals.
Lately, the news is full of information about high tech developments in organ donation and transplantation.
In the 1970s and '80s, both Democratic and Republicans Administrations provided support to companies engaged in technology research and development that was the catalyst for the development of the high tech industry -- and American emerged the winner.
He is the recipient of the Prime Minister's Life Achievement Award for the development of the high tech industry in Israel (twice), Entrepreneur of the Year, and the Rominisiaru prize for Economics from Tel Aviv University.
And in America, where local and state governments are keen to raise cash without increasing taxes or borrowing, the attraction of financing the construction of toll-roads through a shared public-private partnership is clear too.The means to keep cars, boats and planes on the move may not have the glamour or allure of the latest high-tech development.
On the success side, according to Denis Simon, co-author of "Technological Innovation in China", is the Loongson or Dragon chip, developed with money from the state's high-tech development plan.
And while today's most advanced prosthetics incorporate some of the highest tech anywhere, their development has been slow.
The row will further reinforce the image of Prince Charles as a dyed-in-the-wool conservative in architectural matters, a view which was given wide currency last month when he intervened to secure the abandonment of a £1bn high-tech development at central London's Chelsea Barracks site by the leading modernist architect Richard Rogers.
Though whether state support does any good is another matter: Vietnam's hulking state economy, which still accounts for two-fifths of the country's output, offers endless case studies of sloppy management practices that no entrepreneur is keen to emulate.To some, the government's support programmes for high-tech development look good on paper but will sink under the weight of bureaucracy.
Chief among Mr. Paterson's goals is scrapping the scandal-plagued Empire Zone program of business tax breaks and replacing it with new one, called the Excelsior Jobs program, that would focus on high-tech development and so-called green jobs.
With the help of Ghanaian business partners, BusyInternet is preparing to open a high-tech development center in Accra, Ghana, that offers training rooms, office space, meeting rooms, workstations for low-cost public Internet access, a photocopying shop and a cafe.
