Industry Spotlight INNOVATION/Information Technology
Staying Power
Technology industry is a main driver for region’s growth
N
Orth Texas is
home to one of
the largest
high-tech
centers in the
country, known as the Telecom Corridor®.
With 3,000 tech-focused companies and a
quarter-of-a-million employees, these
telecom, IT, biomedical, semiconductor
and nanotech businesses are mainstays
of the region.
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Richardson is the tech-epicenter of North Texas with mobile phone giant
Samsung Telecommunication’s American headquarters located there, and
Texas Instruments with its corporate headquarters and clean room facilities.
The North Texas technology sector is
a billion-dollar business, employing more
than 230,000 people with more than 6,500
companies located in the region.
“We are a globally competitive center
for high technology,” said Bill Sproull,
president and CEO of the Metroplex
Technology Business Council. “We have
talent, infrastructure, management and
technical skills, a growing research
university presence, and we have a huge
corporate base to feed all of that.”
For more than 15 years, the Metroplex
Technology Business Council has fostered
supportive business growth and advocacy
among regional technology businesses,
and remains in tune with what’s needed in
order to succeed in today’s markets, and
also on what’s emerging in the technologies
of tomorrow.
The North Texas area is known for
having a deep pool of engineering software
companies and scientific talent, and all of
this goes back to a technology trifecta that
occurred in the late ’50s and early ’60s –
the development of the Telecom Corridor,
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