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Abstract: Public awareness regarding high-tech importance in improving economic growth is becoming more and more crucial in analysing an evolving labour market with greater impact on the future global economy. High-tech sectors have been essential for achieving the sustainable development of both advanced and emerging economies, hence our paper has as main objective to study the most significant trends in tech-based development emphasizing the role of technological adjustment in promoting the major changes in the future of jobs. Taking into account the spillover effects of high technologies for boosting economic growth, our research aims to provide a comparative analysis regarding the leading countries in the field. The present paper takes into consideration selected relevant technology indicators and World Development Indicators in order to evaluate the countries' potential regarding their high-tech advancement and adaptation of the labour market to the market requirements. Using a quantitative analysis and a qualitative approach (based on the most relevant theories in the literature such as the "triple helix" model for tech-based development), the present paper shows that a cutting-edge technology also requires new skill sets for working in certain circumstances.

Keywords: high-tech, technology index, future of jobs, research and development, "triple helix" model

1. Introduction: the relationship between tech-based development and the future of jobs The high-tech sector is related to those industries that use the scientific knowledge in the production of goods and services. Certain authors (Hill et al., 2014) point out that high-tech industries are commonly considered those industries in which the scientific knowledge used is rapidly advancing and so are the attributes of the products and services resulting from its application. The most often used example of high-tech industry is the computer industry. Among the most important high-tech industries in terms of their contribution to national GDP/are: telecommunication (where new technologies based on the Internet and wireless connection have proliferated, consumer electronics with the digital technology underlying products from high-definition DVD players to videogame terminals and digital camera, pharmaceuticals, where new technologies are based on cell biology and genomics, aerospace with the combination of new composite materials and more efficient jet engines).

While high-tech product types are continuously evolving, there are some shared features identified by the most important researches in the field (See Table 1).

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