Once relied on traditional manufacturing industry, the approval of Southern Taiwan Science Park in 1995 transformed the region into a major high-tech industrial hub.

Over the last decade, the city and its neighbors along a 30-mile stretch of Highway 101 have been transformed into a high-tech hub commonly known as Telecom Valley.

Dortmund has completely transformed itself from a coal and steel town, into one of Germany's leading green metropolises and high-tech hubs.

Northern Virginia's high-tech hub, arguably the epicenter of the Internet, is fueling a robust economy.

"Paju's reputation has completely changed from military city to high-tech hub," Lee Bang Soo, spokesman for LG.

"We are proud to make the northern part of Seoul the high-tech hub."

Sematech officials said they saw a value in choosing an area that was not already a high-tech hub or a crowded metropolitan area.

Nestled in the hills of West Virginia is a high-tech hub that supports crime-fighting and national security.

The opportunity to recast its polluted industrial waterfront as a high-tech hub and recreation destination took nearly two decades to emerge.

And a majority of the 3,500 members of his megachurch, which is based in this tidy Seattle suburb and high-tech hub, is white, as is his wife.