high-tech firm
collocation in Englishmeaningsofhigh-techandfirm
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high-tech
adjective
uk/ˌhaɪˈtek/us/ˌhaɪˈtek/
using the most advanced and developed machines ...
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firm
noun[C]
uk/fɜːm/us/fɝːm/
a company offering a professional service, for example a company ...
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They are becoming increasingly important in backinghigh-techfirmformation.
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But what sort ofhigh-techfirm—medicine is very high-tech these days—can they have in mind that spends so minuscule a fraction of its money on research?
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Globalization then makes it possible for high-tech firms to find and employ high-skill foreign labor at a cost below the cost of searching for and employing domestic high-skill workers.
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These additional benefits can then be phased out in the long run as new high-tech firms enter the market to replace those that have engaged in outsourcing.
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Venture capitalism has thus played an important role in increasing the birth of new high-tech firms together with its central function in favouring the social generation and exploitation of knowledge.
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High-tech firms do not sit comfortably as neighbours with mucky, old, heavy industry.
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This will focus on young high-tech firms needing small amounts of equity.
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One thinks of the drugs sector and some of the high-tech firms that have grown up on science parks and so on.
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Many high-tech firms would not exist if they were not allowed to develop in clusters.
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At most, small high-tech firms constitute 5 per cent of the population of small firms, if that.
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I should like to talk about the importance of high-tech firms.
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In the past two years new emerging high-tech firms have been left to flounder.
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I have more than 1,000 high-tech firms in my constituency.
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Can the small high-tech firms really carry the whole weight of the revolution which we are seeking to effect?
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I have also decided that high-tech firms recruiting essential personnel will be able to offer share option incentives of £100,000 for up to 15 employees.
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It has encouraged many scientists to become entrepreneurs, and to set up their own high-tech firms and consultancies.
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There is a myth that high-tech firms are high-risk, which is simply not true when one considers the facts.
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I believe that our tax system could do a great deal to develop small high-tech firms.
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I suggest that that is hardly impressive when one considers that high-tech firms often spend proportionately 10, 20 or even 30 times as much.
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The 82-page publication was distributed free in coffee shops and bookstores, as well as cafeterias in selected high-tech firms.
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