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Creating Regional Wealth in the Innovation Economy: Models, Perspectives, and Best Practices
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Creating Regional Wealth in the Innovation Economy: Models, Perspectives, and Best Practices

by Jeff Saperstein, Dr. Daniel Rouach
June 2002
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
10h 33m
English
Pearson
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Part II. Irelandthe Enterprise Isle

Ireland was long considered a backwater of Europe and an economic appendage to the United Kingdom. Its greatest export over the past two centuries has been its people. George Bernard Shaw, the great early 20th century playwright, bespoke the Irish predicament when he said, “I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.”[1]

Ireland has turned itself into an exemplary model of economic strength through linkage to the Innovation Economy. Its story is a great inspiration for those regions seeking to elevate themselves through economic development.

Moving up the value chain to adapt to economic and technological change is built into Ireland's development ...

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