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Promoting Silicon Valleys in Latin America: Lessons from Costa Rica book cover

1st Edition

Promoting Silicon Valleys in Latin America Lessons from Costa Rica

By Luciano Ciravegna Copyright 2012
176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge
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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,... Read more
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

Biography

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

'Promoting Silicon Valley in Latin America leverages an impressive wealth of information to examine Costa Rica’s success in developing one of the most advanced high technology clusters in Latin America. The book provides interesting insights for scholars of competitiveness and international competition, and offers practical lessons for all of the Latin American countries that are trying to promote the creation of technology-based clusters within their borders.'

Arturo Condo, INCAE Business School and Harvard Business School.

 

'Luciano Ciravegna’s book is a major contribution to our understanding of clusters, social networks, and industrial development in Latin America. His insights – supported by extensive field research – will be invaluable to policymakers as well as scholars.'

Roy Nelson, Thunderbird School of Global Management

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