High tech maintains stability for 1997

Although numerous stock-market analysts say the high-tech industry has peeked and investors should be wary, the high-tech industry in Colorado appears to be not only stable but also strong and growing stronger.

“High tech is a growth industry in the state,´ said Tucker Hart Adams, chief economist with Colorado National Bank in Denver. “The economy requires an educated, well-trained work force, and CSU, CU and the University of Northern Colorado provide a stable base with ongoing research, which pulls money into the area.”

Colorado State University in Fort Collins, the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley and the University of Colorado in…