| Description |
1 online resource (288 pages) |
| Series |
Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences ; no. 23 |
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Structural analysis in the social sciences ; no. 23
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Title from publishers bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Dec 2011) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-264) and index |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Information technology -- Economic aspects -- Ireland
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Economic development -- Social aspects -- Ireland
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Industrial policy -- Social aspects -- Ireland
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Technological innovations -- Government policy -- Ireland
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Computer software industry -- Ireland
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Computer software industry
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Economic development -- Social aspects
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Information technology -- Economic aspects
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Technological innovations -- Government policy
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Ireland
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780511499609 |
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0511499604 |
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9780521830737 |
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0521830737 |
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0511195265 |
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9780511195266 |
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1280477849 |
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9781280477843 |
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0511195923 |
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9780511195921 |
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0511193858 |
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9780511193859 |
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0511314272 |
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9780511314278 |
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0511194595 |
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9780511194597 |
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