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Enterprise and Society 2006 7(4):675-685; doi:10.1093/es/khl043
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© The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org.

Innovation and the State—Development Strategies for High Technology Industries in a World of Fragmented Production: Israel, Ireland, and Taiwan

Dan Breznitz

DAN BREZNITZ is an Assistant Professor at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and at the School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology. Contact information: Georgia Institute of Technology, 781 Marietta Street, NW Atlanta, GA 30332-0610, USA. E-mail: tbvb@gatech.edu.

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This dissertation seeks to explain the puzzling phenomenon of "technological leapfrogging." One of the most unexpected developments of the 1990s is that firms in a number of newly created states with agriculturally based economies and mixed histories of industrial success were able, in the time span of one generation, to move to the forefront of new Information Technologies (IT). Even more surprising, the IT industries of these countries encompass a wide range of organizational models and carve out different positions within the global IT industry production networks. These developments challenge two key assumptions underlying much of current development theory: i) that economies must necessarily travel through a defined path from less to more technologically advanced industries, mastering each stage in sequence and ii) that in every period there is only one "best" path toward industrialization. I argue that employing varied science and technology industrial policies, emerging economies can successfully spur . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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