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Article: China displaces United States in Georgia Tech's Technology index.
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- Manufacturing & Technology News
- Article date:
- May 16, 2008
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China has surpassed the United States in a key measure of high tech competitiveness. The Georgia Institute of Technology's bi-annual "High-Tech Indicators" finds that China improved its "technological standing" by 9 points over the period of 2005 to 2007, with the United States and Japan suffering declines of 6.8 and 7.1 respectively. In Georgia Tech's scale of one to 100, China's technological standing now rests at 82.8, compared to the U.S. at 76.1. The United States peaked at 95.4 in 1999. China has increased from 22.5 in 1996 to 82.8 in 2007.
"The message speaks out pretty loudly," says Alan Porter, co-director of Georgia Tech's Technology Policy and ...