New markets remain key to a thriving tech sector 

High-tech industry exports totaled $223 billion nationally during 2008, an increase of 1 percent compared to 2007. While long-term analysis shows an increase of 38 percent since 2002, high-tech exports have decreased in four subsectors: computers and peripheral equipment, consumer electronics, semiconductors and industrial electronics. Those decreases, however, have been partially mitigated by increases in [...] [...]