Technology

The tech sector is an industry that relies on a skilled and educated workforce, acts as an innovative producer in the US economy, and creates and utilizes advanced technologies. The tech sector’s share of workers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) occupations is more than twice that of the national average.

This industry is quite large and growing consistently. In 2018, tech companies contributed $8.3 trillion of economic value in the United States, accounting for nearly 23 percent of U.S. gross domestic product (GDP). Additionally, tech companies employ approximately 20 million U.S. workers. The U.S. tech industry also continues to grow, especially in fields such as the data processing, hosting, and related services sub-industry, which had a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 57.9 percent from 2013 to 2018.

Foreign investment supports the tech industry in the United States and helps it thrive. Specifically, the inward position in the U.S. tech sector was $2.0 trillion in 2018. That’s 46 percent of total FDI in the United States! It also steadily continues to grow: the five-year CAGR for FDI in the tech sector was 10.1 percent between 2013 and 2018. This growth is faster than the comparable all-industry FDI CAGR average of 9.8 percent.

Foreign-owned companies in tech industries have steadily increased their annual U.S. research and development (R&D) spending over recent years to $48.7 billion in 2017. Tech exports exceeded $169 billion in 2017. Additionally, foreign-owned U.S. affiliates in the tech sector directly supported more than 2.1 million U.S. jobs in 2017.

Therefore, the tech sector is one of the most important sector for US economy and there is plenty of support available for success in the form of venture capital, research grants and low cost debt instruments. There are several co-investing partners who are seeking to invest in complementing technologies as well.

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