Luciano Ciravegna

Promoting Silicon Valleys in Latin America

Lessons from Costa Rica

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The spectacular economic performance of China, East Asia and India during the last ten years has ignited some profound changes in the world economy. The share of global demand, investments, trade and production of the traditional industrialized powers, the US, Europe and Japan, has gradually yet continuously declined. This rise of China also has implications for Latin America. On the one hand, booming Chinese demand for raw materials and food has sustained the economic performance of Latin America during the last decade. On the other hand, the competitiveness of China and as a hub for advanced manufacturing is threatening Latin America's attempt to diversify its economy from its dependence on the export of natural resource-based goods. Most Latin American countries are not however waiting passively for their economies to become ever more reliant on high prices for food, minerals and oil. Leveraging the economic and political stability that they achieved during the last decades, many countries in the region, such as Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica and Uruguay, are attempting to capture the growing market for knowledge intensive products and services by breeding their own Silicon Valleys. This book discusses the promotion of ICT clusters in Latin America by analyzing the development of the Costa Rican cluster in particular, an often celebrated case of successful policy in the region. Costa Rica, a small country traditionally known for its coffee and wildlife, managed to build an information technology cluster within ten years, becoming the leading producer of ICT per capita in Latin America. Studying the Costa Rican case provides a solid starting point for understanding the challenges of building ICT clusters in Latin America.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 437g
• ISBN-13: 9780415685740
• ISBN-10: 0415685745
• Artikelnr.: 33380300

Autorenporträt

Luciano Ciravegna is Lecturer in Strategy and International Business, Royal Holloway School of Management, University of London, Visiting Professor, INCAE Business School, Costa Rica and Visiting Fellow, The London School of Economics

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Searching for Sustainable Development Models in Latin
America 2. Theoretical Background 3. Building ICT Clusters in Latin
America: The Costa Rican Experience 4. From Foreign Direct Investment to
Multinational Corporations' Networks with Local Firms 5. Financial
Networks: Investors Networks in the Costa Rican Cluster 6. Networks of
Costa Rican ICT Producers: Local Rivalries in a Small Market 7. Innovation
Networks: Linking Academia and the Private Sector 8. Local Companies'
Networks with Firms Located Abroad: Building Transnational Social Ties 9.
Conclusion