Editing Albany County, New York (section)

==Economy==

===Tech Valley===
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Since the 2000s, the economy of Albany County and the surrounding Capital District has been redirected toward [[high-tech|high technology]]. [[Tech Valley]] is a marketing name for the eastern part of New York State, encompassing Albany County, the Capital District, and the [[Hudson Valley]].<ref name=Chambercoalition>{{cite web|title=About Tech Valley |publisher=Tech Valley Chamber Coalition |access-date=September 27, 2009 |url=http://techvalley.org/Pages/Live/About%20Tech%20Valley.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081103032600/http://www.techvalley.org/Pages/Live/About%20Tech%20Valley.html |archive-date=November 3, 2008 }}</ref> Originated in 1998 to promote the greater Albany area as a high-tech competitor to regions such as [[Silicon Valley]] and [[Boston]], it has since grown to represent the counties in the Capital District and extending to [[IBM]]'s [[Westchester County, New York|Westchester County]] plants in the south and the [[Canada–United States border|Canada–US border]] to the north. The area's [[entrepreneurial ecosystem|high technology ecosystem]] is supported by technologically focused [[academia|academic institutions]] including [[Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute]] and the [[State University of New York Polytechnic Institute]].<ref name=MadeInAlbany>{{cite news|url=http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Made-in-Albany-IBM-reveals-breakthrough-chip-6376816.php|title=Made in Albany: IBM reveals breakthrough chip made at SUNY Poly|author=Larry Rulison|newspaper=Albany Times-Union|date=July 10, 2015|access-date=July 12, 2015}}</ref> Tech Valley encompasses 19 counties straddling both sides of the [[Adirondack Northway]] and the [[New York Thruway]],<ref name=Chambercoalition/> and with heavy [[subsidy|state taxpayer subsidy]], has experienced significant growth in the [[computer hardware]] side of the high-technology industry, with great strides in the [[nanotechnology]] sector, [[digital electronics]] design, and water- and electricity-dependent [[integrated circuit|integrated microchip circuit]] manufacturing.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/albany/print-edition/2014/06/27/better-than-advertised-hip-plant-beats.html|title=Better than advertised: Chip plant beats expectations|author=Keshia Clukey|newspaper=Albany Business Review|date=June 27, 2014|access-date=July 20, 2015}}</ref>