The need for low-skilled workers is declining as we continue to shift toward a service- and technology-based economy.

This country continues its transition to a service- and technology-based economy.

The city has made efforts to rename this area the Knowledge District to reflect the area's newly developing life sciences and technology-based economy.

Known as a visionary, he successfully steered the state through a national recession, transforming New Mexico into a more technology-based economy and laid the groundwork for future deployment of rapid rail transit, education and social reform.

Thanks to the booming technology-based economy, companies' long-standing scramble for qualified technical workers has taken on an air of desperation lately.

"We really do have a profound change in our economic model, from a mass-produced, consumer-based economy to a global, technology-based economy," said Michael Murphy, publisher of the California Technology Stock Letter.

The European Union will not be the world's leading knowledge- and technology-based economy in 2010.

Not surprisingly given Huntsville's technology-based economy, UAH is known for engineering and science programs, including astrophysics, atmospheric science and aerospace engineering.

College of Technology and Innovation In 1996, as one of the founding schools on the Polytechnic campus houses internationally respected faculty in the College develops competence in disciplines critical to today's technology-based economy.

With better-than-average schools overall and many elite universities, the area was well placed to take advantage of the technology-based economy of the 1990s.