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外文题目:The Irish Indigenous Software Industry: Explaining the Development of a Knowledge-intensive Industry Cluster in a Less Favoured Region
出处:ERSA 2002 Dortmund: 42nd Congress of the European Regional Science Association (August 27th–31st 2002)
作者: MIKE CRONE
外文原文
The Irish Indigenous Software Industry: Explaining the Development of a Knowledge-intensive Industry Cluster in a Less Favoured Region
MIKE CRONE
Northern Ireland Economic Research Centre, 22-24 Mount Charles, Belfast BT7 1NZ, UK
E-mail: m.******@ Web-site: /nierc
ABSTRACT
Over the last decade, the Republic of Ireland has emerged as a hotbed of software development activity. The software industry was one of the leading sources of employment growth in the Irish economy during 1990s. Although foreign direct investment has been part of the story, it is the emergence of a vibrant indigenous software industry that is particularly notable. The indigenous industry presently employs 14,000people and generates annual revenues of € billion. It is highly export-oriented, has growing productivity and is increasingly innovative. Several of its leading firms have floated on the Nasdaq stock exchange.
The emergence of a cluster of knowledge-intensive businesses, in what has been
traditionally regarded as a less favoured region, is conceptually interesting and certainly of relevance to policy-makers parable regions. The paper sets the ambitious goal of explaining the development of the Irish indigenous software industry, drawing on an examination of several existing studies and various additional secondary data sources. It begins by describing the key characteristics of the industry. It then reviews some of the key factors and processes that have contributed to its development, within the context of the recent literature on clusters of knowledge-intensive industry. The initial establishment of the cluster can be attributed to the presence of some favourable factor cond