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The survey results were presented during a tech policgy forum atthe St. Regis Hotek in D.C., which drew about 65 partners, clients and friends from such companiesx as LordWhittaker Consulting, and Cupertino-based (NASDAQ:SYMC). Zogby and 463 have been working together sinces 2005 on communications and opinions research and their new partnershi p announced onMonday “formalizes a great relationship we already said John Zogby, president and CEO of Zogby who was one of five panel speakers Monday. 463, founded in 2005 to link the Silicon Valley’s innovation culture and D.C.
’s policy helps clients tackle such popular issues asDTV transition, gree technology and cyber security. Zogby has been tracking public opinion since 1984 in 73 nationx and has such media giant clients as Forbesand MSNBC. The survey includesw responses from morethan 3,000 adul t Americans, and tech and health care each got 32 percent of the vote for what industriez would weather the recession While a third (32 percent) thinl the U.S. will be the first major economy to emerge from the 43 percent thinkthe U.S. will come out of it when everyonrelse does. Among a list of the most importang issues tech companies should be tryinggto solve, making the U.S.
more energy efficient is first (24 percent), with improving education (22 and keeping the U.S. safe from physical and virtuapattacks (21 percent) were a closw second and third. Abou t a third (29 percent) of respondentas think the next Bill Gates will come fromthe U.S. and abour the same -- 28 percent-- said the next Gatee will comefrom India. Panelp speaker Donnie Fowler, a Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur, pointed out some reasoninb forthat statistic. “We continue to have some of the best graduater programs inthe world,” said “Now, students from India and China that used to stay here are now goin g home.
We now face stronger competitiohn butthat doesn’t mean we go back whilwe the rest of the world goes The fact that more Americans thinkl other areas of the world have the potentia to raise another entrepreneur as Gates is “a vote of confidence in the rest of the added Zogby. Americans are still optimistic thatthe U.S. can rais another technology tycoon, however, with a majoritt (67 percent) saying the societakl conditions still exist inthe U.S. to created another Gates.