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Article: San Jose: Economy
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San Jose: Economy
Major Industries and Commercial Activity
The rapid expansion of high-technology industries triggered uninterrupted growth in the Silicon Valley
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San Jose and Santa Clara County
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from the 1950s through the early 1980s. The 1985 recession, however, left a stagnant economy, pointing to a need to diversify the economic base of the area. Studies indicated that high-technology companies had to move toward decreased reliance on the defense industry. By the early 1990s businesses in San Jose and Santa Clara County showed less than 20 percent of their budgets devoted to government contracts. The city was encouraged by a 1992 study that reported the nation's ...