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Author Ó Riain, S. (Seán)

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

Publication Info. New York : Cambridge University Press, [2004]
©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 270 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Structural analysis in the social sciences
Structural analysis in the social sciences.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-264) and index.
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 -- Class Politics of the Global Region -- 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 The book provides a detailed study of the software industry in Ireland, of the state policies that promoted it, the political institutions which made that possible and of how similar institutions have been central to other high tech regions in Taiwan, Israel and elsewhere.
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Subject Information technology -- Economic aspects -- Ireland.
Information technology -- Economic aspects.
Ireland.
Economic development -- Social aspects -- Ireland.
Economic development -- Social aspects.
Industrial policy -- Social aspects -- Ireland.
Industrial policy.
Social aspects.
Technological innovations -- Government policy -- Ireland.
Technological innovations -- Government policy.
Computer software industry -- Ireland.
Computer software industry.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Ó Riain, S. (Seán). Politics of high-tech growth. New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2004 (DLC) 2003053299
ISBN 0511193858
9780511193859
0521830737
9780521830737
0511195923 (electronic book)
9780511195921 (electronic book)
0511194595
9780511194597