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The Making of a High Technology Node: Foreign-owned Companies in Israeli High Technology

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FELSENSTEIN D. (1997) The making of a high technology node: foreign-owned companies in Israeli high technology, Reg. Studies 31, 367-380. This paper conceptualizes the role of Israel's high technology sector as that of a node in a global production network. A node can be characterized by the intensity of the incoming and outgoing flow of information, investments and so on, that pass through it. Foreign investment is one indicator of the centrality of a node. Using case study and aggregate firm level evidence of US foreign investment in Israeli high technology, the paper tests the hypothesis that foreign involvement in the node economy is based on a rather different set of forces than those suggested by the foreign investment literature. The results seem to indicate the importance of node-type factors such as the centrality of small firms in R&D activity and labour force stability, rather than the standard determinants such as incentives, labour costs and infrastructure. The implications and policy issues relating to the development of a node economy are discussed. FELSENSTEIN D. (1997) L'etablissement d'un noeud de technologie avancee: les entreprises a capital etranger du secteur de la technologie avancee en Israël, Reg. Studies 31, 367-380. Cet article presente le role du secteur de la technologie avancee en Israël en tant que noeud au sein d'un reseau de production mondiale. Un noeud se caracterise par l'ampleur des entrees et des sorties d'information, d'investissement et ainsi de suite, qui le traversent. L'investissement etranger constitue un indicateur de la situation centrale du noeud. A partir des cas d'etudes et des preuves globales au niveau de l'entreprise en ce qui concerne l'investissement direct americain dans le secteur de la technologie avancee en Israël, cet article met a l'epreuve l'hypothese que la participation etrangere a l'economie de noeuds est fondee sur un ensemble de facteurs qui se distinguent de ceux que proposent la documentation qui traite de l'investissement etranger. Il semble que les resultats laissent voir l'importance des facteurs du type 'nodal' telle la situation centrale des petites entreprises dans la R et D et dans la stabilite de la main-d'oeuvre, plutot que les determinants de base tels les incitations, les couts de la main-d'oeuvre et l'infrastructure On discute des retombees et des questions de politique relatives au developpement d'une 'economie de noeuds'. FELSENSTEIN D. (1997) Die Schaffung eines Hochtechnologieknotenpunkts; in ausla¨ndischem Besitz befindliche Gesellschaften in der Hochtechnologie Israels, Reg. Studies 31, 367-380. Dieser Aufsatz fasst die Rolle des Hochtechnologiesektors Israels als die eines Knotenpunkts in einem globalen Produktionsnetz auf. Ein Knotenpunkt kann durch die Intensita¨t ihn durchlaufender eingehender und abgehender Stro¨me von Information, Investierungen usw. charaakterisiert werden. Investierungen des Auslands sind Indikatoren der Zentralita¨tsbedeutung eines Knotenpunkts. Mit Hilfe von Beweismateial von Fallstudien und einem U¨berblick der u¨berseeischen Investierungen der Vereinigten Staaten in der Hochtechnologie Israels untersucht dieser Aufsatz auf Firmenebene die Hypothese, dass ausla¨ndische Verflechtung in der Knotenpunktwirtschaft auf einer Reihe von Gewalten beruht, die sich sehr von den in der Auslandsinvestierungsliteraur vorgeschlagenen unterscheidet. Die Ergebnisse scheinen weniger die Bedeutung der Standardbestimmungsfaktoren wie Anreize, Arbeitskosten und Infrastruktur als die 'Knotenpunkttypfaktoren' zu unterstreichen, wie die zentrale Stellung kleiner Firmen in Forschung und Entwicklung, und die Dauerhaftigkeit von Angestelltenverha¨ltnissen. Es werden Implikationen sowie Fragen der Handlungsweisen im Hinblick auf die Entwicklung einer knotenpunktswirtschaft diskutiert.

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  • Daniel Felsenstein, 1997. "The Making of a High Technology Node: Foreign-owned Companies in Israeli High Technology," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 31(4), pages 367-380.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:regstd:v:31:y:1997:i:4:p:367-380
    DOI: 10.1080/00343409750132973
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    1. Breznitz, Dan, 2007. "Industrial R&D as a national policy: Horizontal technology policies and industry-state co-evolution in the growth of the Israeli software industry," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 36(9), pages 1465-1482, November.
    2. Marco Giarratana & Alessandro Pagano & Salvatore Torrisi, 2003. "Links Between Multinational Firms and Domestic Firms: a Comparison of the Software Industry in India, Ireland and Israel," LEM Papers Series 2003/22, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy.
    3. Stephen Roper & Seamus Grimes, 2003. "Wireless Valley, Silicon Wadi and Digital Island - Helsinki, Tel Aviv and Dublin in the ICT Boom," ERSA conference papers ersa03p62, European Regional Science Association.

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