For all that, South Korea's success in one-megabit chips does not necessarily herald a new era of technological competitiveness.

Overregulation based on fear and bureaucratic behavior will ensure the decline of our technological and economic competitiveness over the next 50 years.

It was a bipartisan effort to foster technological innovation and the technological competitiveness of the United States in the international arena.

Microsoft opened a research center in Germany yesterday that will work on projects earmarked by the European Commission to further the region's technological competitiveness.

Primary goals of the IIT are the creation and dissemination of scientific knowledge as well as strengthening Italy's technological competitiveness.

Communications and information policy is now of paramount importance to Western industrialised nations, in terms of productivity, exports, imports, inward/outward capital investment, and technological competitiveness.

But this downturn is particularly worrisome to the experts because they believe it is symptomatic of this country's broader loss of technological and industrial competitiveness.

There is little if any evidence that Japan's technological competitiveness has been seriously compromised.

Some view this as a positive step toward improving the country's technological competitiveness.

The best that can be hoped for now, some say, are broader efforts to improve the nation's overall technological competitiveness.