Business Facilities - March 2009 - (Page 10) COVER STORY By Bill Trüb A moneymaking matrix of innovation and investment, high technology encompasses a dizzying series of subsectors. Here, we aim to demystify this enigmatic industry while introducing some emerging markets and distinguishing the well-established hubs. W hen attempting to decipher the meaning of “high technology,” one question bugs the brain and one distinction demands clarification: What makes something high-tech as opposed to low-tech? Across various industries and innumerable products, the answer is simple: time. Clichéd adjectives such as “cutting-edge,” “breakthrough,” and “avant-garde” are used casually to describe hightech products as they slide off conSan Jose, CA, the epicenter of Silicon Valley veyor belts, clatter down assembly lines, and swirl around Petri dishes. But time is high technology’s archenemy, as these “cutting edge” products are made, inevitably, low-tech and obsolete in a matter of years or days, months or minutes. Therefore, something can only truly hold its hightech title for the moment it’s released into a marketplace or scientific community; after all, a fresher, more advanced successor always is being researched. High-tech companies, however, can choose to locate in clus- ters to stay attuned to the latest developments and, in some less cutthroat cases, offer collaborations. To compound this reality of latebreaking, up-to-the-minute developments, high technology essentially is an umbrella term that expands over a smattering of subsectors. Aerospace technology, biotechnology and pharmaceuticals, information technology (IT), electronic media and digital gaming, robotics, and advanced alternative energy are just a fistful of employment fields that often are 10 MARCH 2009 PHOTO CREDIT: WIKIPEDIA
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