The Politics of High Tech Growth: Developmental Network States in the Global EconomyThis 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
NETWORKS OF DEVELOPMENT Globalization High Technology and the Celtic Tiger | 5 |
STATE DEVELOPMENTALISMS AND CAPITALIST GLOBALIZATIONS | 17 |
EXPLAINING THE CELTIC TIGER | 41 |
LOCATION NATION REMAKING SOCIETY FOR FOREIGN INVESTMENT | 71 |
INDIGENOUS INNOVATION AND THE DEVELOPMENTAL NETWORK STATE | 92 |
MAKING GLOBAL AND LOCAL | 113 |
THE CLASS POLITICS OF THE GLOBAL REGION | 129 |
INSTITUTIONS OF THE DEVELOPMENTAL NETWORK STATE | 145 |
POLITICS AND CHANGE IN DEVELOPMENT REGIMES | 169 |
DEVELOPMENTAL BUREAUCRATIC AND NETWORK STATES IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE | 195 |
FUTURES OF THE NETWORK STATE | 234 |
METHODOLOGY OF THE STUDY | 245 |
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The Politics of High Tech Growth: Developmental Network States in the Global ... Sean O'Riain No preview available - 2007 |
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From Underdogs to Tigers: The Rise and Growth of the Software Industry in ... Ashish Arora,Alfonso Gambardella No preview available - 2006 |