The Information Society and the Welfare State: The Finnish Model

Etukansi
Oxford University Press, 2002 - 200 sivua
Silicon Valley has been considered as the model that societies must imitate to succeed in the information age. However, recently another alternative has attracted strong international interest: the Finnish model. This is equally dynamic in technological and economic terms, but combines the information society with the welfare state. The Information Society and the Welfare State is the first accessible academic study of what the Finnish model really is. The authors analyse the factors that have enabled Nokia to become one of the world's leading telecommunications companies, for example, and Linux to become the biggest challenger to Microsoft in the operating systems market. They discuss the development of Nokia and the Finnish innovation model, with important lessons for businesses and national technology policies.
 

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INTRODUCTION The Finnish Information Society in a Global Context
11
THE MOBILE VALLEY Nokia Finland and the Transformation of the Finnish Economy
19
INNOVATION ABOUT INNOVATING The Unlikely Innovation System The State Corporate Business Universities and Hackers
45
THE WELFARE OF THE NATION The Information Society and the Welfare State
77
THE LOCAL INFORMATION SOCIETY Spatial Dynamics Information Technology and Public Policy
103
THE POWER OF IDENTITY Identity Driving the Information Society and the Information Society Building Identity
127
THE FINNISH MODEL OF THE INFORMATION SOCIETY
140
CONCLUSION I The Challenges for Finland
151
CONCLUSION II Learning from Finland
166
Appendices
171
Bibliography
180
Index
197
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Pekka Himanen, 27, earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Helsinki at the age of twenty. Since then he has worked there as an endowed researcher into the social effects of the network society and been a visiting scholar at Stanford and Cal Berkeley. He has advised governments, universities, and the world's leading information companies, from Nokia to small start-up IT companies, on human-oriented approaches to the network society.

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