High Tech

1. A widely-used classification of high-technological manufacturing industries is provided by the OECD

2. It is based on the intensity of research and development activities used in these industries within OECD coutries

3. Is technology that is at the cutting edge: the most advanced technology available.

4. Robert Metz used the term in a financial column in 1969: "Arthur H. Collins of Collins Radio controls a score of high technology patents in variety of fields."and in a 1971 article used the abbreviated form, "high tech."

5. The opposite of high tech is low technology, referring to simple