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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457921103321

Autore

Ó Riain S (Seán)

Titolo

The politics of high-tech growth : developmental network states in the global economy / / Seán Ó Riain [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004

ISBN

1-107-14826-X

1-280-47784-9

0-511-19526-5

0-511-19592-3

0-511-19385-8

0-511-31427-2

0-511-49960-4

0-511-19459-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xviii, 270 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Structural analysis in the social sciences ; ; 23

Disciplina

338.9417/06

Soggetti

Information technology - Economic aspects - Ireland

Economic development - Social aspects - Ireland

Industrial policy - Social aspects - Ireland

Technological innovations - Government policy - Ireland

Computer software industry - Ireland

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-264) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Development in the Global Information Economy -- Networks of Development: Globalization, High Technology, and the Celtic Tiger -- State Developmentalisms and Capitalist Globalizations -- Explaining the Celtic Tiger -- Software and the Celtic Tiger -- "Location Nation": Remaking Society for Foreign Investment -- Indigenous Innovation and the Developmental Network State -- Making Global and Local -- The Class Politics of the Global Region -- The Politics of the Developmental Network State -- Institutions of the Developmental Network State -- Politics and Change in Development Regimes -- Developmental Bureaucratic and Network States in Comparative Perspective -- Futures of the Network State -- Developmental Bureaucratic and Network States



-- Key Indicators of the Turnaround in the Irish Economy, 1970-2002 -- Institutional Change in the Irish Political Economy, 1960-2000 -- Irish-Owned Industry, 1991-1999 -- Foreign-Owned Industry, 1991-1999 -- Number of Companies, Employment, and Revenues of Foreign and Irish Ownership in the Irish Software Industry, 1987-1997 -- Sales and Exports in the Indigenous Software Industry in India, Ireland, and Israel, 1993-1997 -- Sectoral Employment Growth, 1961-2000 -- Software Localization and Fulfillment, 1992-2001 -- Foreign-Owned Companies with Software Development Operations, 1992-2001 -- Trends in Private Equity Investment, 1997-1999 (000s of Irish Pounds) -- R & D Funding in Indigenous Software Firms, 1993-1995.

Sommario/riassunto

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.