The Politics of High Tech Growth: Developmental Network States in the Global Economy: Series Number 23 (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences, Series Number 23) - Hardcover

O'Riain, Sean

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521830737 ISBN 13: 9780521830737

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2004

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Seán Ó Riain is Professor of Sociology, National University of Ireland, Maynooth.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521830737
• ISBN 13: 9780521830737
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288