High Tech Connections affirms the following:

• HTC's mission is to help U.S. and Dutch companies, universities and institutes to develop and deliver the new products, services and technology gains essential for future growth in the digital era.
  
• Innovation is a prominent pillar to sustain future economic growth.
  
• World-class innovation requires building on traditions while aiming higher towards a knowledge environment that encourages open and free enterprise.
  
• HTC's strategic fields of choice - Nanotechnology, Microtechnology and Embedded Technology - are market segments in which both the Netherlands and the United States play enabling roles.