The politics of high-tech growth : developmental network states in the global economy / Seán Ó Riain.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ó Riain, S. (Seán), author.

Series:

Structural analysis in the social sciences ; 23.

Structural analysis in the social sciences ; 23

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Information technology--Economic aspects--Ireland.

Information technology.

Economic development--Social aspects--Ireland.

Economic development.

Industrial policy--Social aspects--Ireland.

Industrial policy.

Technological innovations--Government policy--Ireland.

Technological innovations.

Computer software industry--Ireland.

Computer software industry.

Physical Description:

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

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

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.

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.

Notes:

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

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

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

OCLC:

171138771