Ramirez, P., Love, James H. and Vahter, Priit (2016) Industry-academic links : a new phase in Ireland's FDI-led industrialisation strategy. European Urban and Regional Studies, 23 (2). pp. 167-181. doi:10.1177/0969776413493632

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Abstract

We analyse industry–academic links in the context of a dual economy (or disarticulated industrial structure) in Ireland, a peripheral region of the EU. The duality found in the Irish industrial structure is the result of a FDI-led industrialisation strategy which has resulted in two distinct economic sectors – foreign and indigenous, respectively – with weak interactions between the two. Through increased public funding of academic research, the Irish government aimed to attract and embed new waves of higher-value foreign direct investment and increase the dynamism of its indigenous enterprise base. Based on a combination of quantitative and qualitative data, the paper analyses a crucial aspect of Ireland’s recent emphasis on STI policy – industry-academic linkages – and finds that the measures introduced reproduce in the public research system the uneven development found in Ireland’s productive system between indigenous industry and the foreign-owned industrial base.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Strategy & International Business Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School
Journal or Publication Title:	European Urban and Regional Studies
Publisher:	Sage Publications Ltd.
ISSN:	0969-7764
Official Date:	April 2016
Dates:	Date Event April 2016 Published 29 July 2013 Available
Volume:	23
Number:	2
Page Range:	pp. 167-181
DOI:	10.1177/0969776413493632
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access

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