When Small States Make Big Leaps : Institutional Innovation and High-Tech Competition in Western Europe /
At the close of the twentieth century, Denmark, Finland, and Ireland emerged as unlikely centers for high-tech competition. In When Small States Make Big Leaps, Darius Ornston reveals how these historically low-tech countries managed to assume leading positions in new industries such as biotechnolog...
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2012.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : recasting corporatism
- The paradox of high-tech corporatism
- The crisis of low-tech production in Denmark, Finland, and Ireland
- From price-fixing cartels to research consortia : rapid restructuring in Finland
- From social protection to skill formation : diversified high-tech production in Denmark
- A low-end producer in high-tech markets : economic adjustment in Ireland
- Comparing corporatisms
- Conclusion : explaining institutional innovation.