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3 Sectors Among Region's Pillars

ECONOMY: Health Care to Generate Thousands of Jobs

Mike Allen, SAN DIEGO BUSINESS JOURNAL

Monday, October 3, 2011

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In the last major recession in the early 1990s, San Diego's technology sector was dominated by a handful of larger companies, most of them related the aerospace and defense industries, said Kelly Cunningham, an economist with National University System Institute for Policy Research. "Today, the sector is made up of mostly smaller companies, but we've done pretty well in capturing some of these in the new industries," he said.