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9780521830737

The Politics of High Tech Growth: Developmental Network States in the Global Economy

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    9780521830737

  • ISBN10:

    0521830737

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2004-04-26
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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This book argues that beneath the Irish trade and foreign investment boom lies a more interesting story of regional innovation promoted by an alliance between the state and local technical communities. This alliance was governed through a decentralized set of state institutions, drawing on 'global' and 'local' economic and political resources. This 'Developmental Network State' has had a significant impact on the growth of Ireland's high tech cluster and is central to the emergence of an international network of 'global high tech regions' from Silicon Valley to Ireland, Taiwan, and Israel. The book provides a detailed study of the rise of the software industry in Ireland and of the state institutions and political conditions which promoted it. It shows how new 'network state' policies and institutions have been central to high tech regions elsewhere.

Author Biography

Sean O Riain: National University of Ireland, Maynooth

Table of Contents

List of tables
List of abbreviations
Preface
1. Development in the global information economy
2. Software and the Celtic tiger
3. The politics of the developmental network state
Appendix A: methodology of the study.

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