New Hampshire currently ranks 13th in the nation for innovation, but its high tech industry does account for 9% of its total private sector employment. High tech companies have been hit by the current recession, but they seem to be faring better than in other states, and some suggest tech could be the industry that helps the Granite State out of its current economic downturn. We’ll check in with New Hampshire’s high tech sector and look at the role it could play in the state’s economic revitalization.
- Ross Gittell, forecast manager at the New England Economic Partnership and Professor of Management at the Whittemore School of Business and Economics at the University of New Hampshire
- Fred Kocher, president of the New Hampshire High Technology Council
- Clark Dumont, vice president of communications at BAE Systems