e/Tech Valley

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has gloss	eng: Tech Valley is a marketing moniker for the eastern part of the US state of New York. It includes the Hudson Valley and Capital District, along with portions of the Mohawk Valley and North Country. Originated in 1998 to promote the greater Albany area as a high-tech competitor to regions such as Silicon Valley, it has since grown to represent the counties in New York between IBMs Westchester County plants in the south and the Canadian border to north. Tech Valley encompasses 19 counties. while the shortened name from "techneurial" to "tech" was the idea of Jay Burgess. In 1998 the Albany-Colonie Chamber began using the Tech Valley as a marketing name for a ten-county area of New Yorks Capital District to show in name the merging of entrepreneurial activity and high-tech companies in the region.
lexicalization	eng: Tech Valley
instance of	c/High-technology business districts