This book takes an international approach by discussing the information society and overall business environment of Finland. Known throughout the world for its successful companies and its exceptional rates of innovation, this volume discusses the country's total transformation in technology, corporate business and education. It creates a complete model of comparison to other economies. Finally, it discusses Finland's future challenges as well as what can be learned to enhance an existing society.
This book takes an international approach by discussing the information society and overall business environment of Finland. Known throughout the worl...
This book takes an international approach by discussing the information society and overall business environment of Finland. Known throughout the world for its successful companies and its exceptional rates of innovation, this volume discusses the country's total transformation in technology, corporate business and education. It creates a complete model of comparison to other economies. Finally, it discusses Finland's future challenges as well as what can be learned to enhance an existing society.
This book takes an international approach by discussing the information society and overall business environment of Finland. Known throughout the worl...
You may be a hacker and not even know it. Being a hacker has nothing to do with cyberterrorism, and it doesn't even necessarily relate to the open-source movement. Being a hacker has more to do with your underlying assumptions about stress, time management, work, and play. It's about harmonizing the rhythms of your creative work with the rhythms of the rest of your life so that they amplify each other. It is a fundamentally new work ethic that is revolutionizing the way business is being done around the world. Without hackers there would be no universal access to e-mail, no Internet, no...
You may be a hacker and not even know it. Being a hacker has nothing to do with cyberterrorism, and it doesn't even necessarily relate to the open-sou...
Technopoles - planned centres for the promotion for high- technology industry - have become a key feature of national economic development worldwide. Created out of a technological revolution, the formation of the global economy and the emergence of a new form of economic production and management, they constitute the mines and foundries of the information age, redefining the conditions and processes of local and regional development. This book is the first systematic survey of technopoles in all manifestations: science parks, science cities, national technopoles and technobelt programmes....
Technopoles - planned centres for the promotion for high- technology industry - have become a key feature of national economic development worldwide. ...
This collection of Castells' classic writing, which also includes two new essays written specifically for this book, reflects the panoramic breadth of his knowledge, the clarity of his approach, and the scholarly rigor and intellectual depth of his theoretical methods.
This collection of Castells' classic writing, which also includes two new essays written specifically for this book, reflects the panoramic breadth of...
This collection of Castells' classic writing, which also includes two new essays written specifically for this book, reflects the panoramic breadth of his knowledge, the clarity of his approach, and the scholarly rigor and intellectual depth of his theoretical methods.
This collection of Castells' classic writing, which also includes two new essays written specifically for this book, reflects the panoramic breadth of...
In a series of conversations Manuel Castells, one of the world's best known social scientists, explains and expands his work. He builds on his earlier thinking, opening it to new audiences and taking it into new areas in a highly accessible way.
Manuel Castells explains and expands his work in a series of conversations with British journalist Martin Ince.
Castells builds on his earlier work, opening it to new audiences, and taking it into new areas in a highly accessible way.
Includes new thinking on social organisations and...
In a series of conversations Manuel Castells, one of the world's best known social scientists, explains and expands his work. He builds on his earlier...
In a series of conversations Manuel Castells, one of the world's best known social scientists, explains and expands his work. He builds on his earlier thinking, opening it to new audiences and taking it into new areas in a highly accessible way.
Manuel Castells explains and expands his work in a series of conversations with British journalist Martin Ince.
Castells builds on his earlier work, opening it to new audiences, and taking it into new areas in a highly accessible way.
Includes new thinking on social organisations and...
In a series of conversations Manuel Castells, one of the world's best known social scientists, explains and expands his work. He builds on his earlier...
A New York roofer requests payment in cash. A Bogota car mechanic sets up -shop- on a quiet side street. Four Mexican immigrants assemble semiconductors in a San Diego home. A Leningrad doctor sells needed medicine to a desperate patient. All are part of a growing worldwide phenomenon that is widely known but little understood. The informal or underground economy is thriving today, not only in the Third World countries where it was first reported and studied but also in Eastern Europe and the developed nations of the West.
The Informal Economy is the first book to bring...
A New York roofer requests payment in cash. A Bogota car mechanic sets up -shop- on a quiet side street. Four Mexican immigrants assemble semicondu...
This text challenges the belief that cities will eventually disappear as territorial forms of social organization as new information technologies permit the articulation of social processes without regard for distance, arguing that the specific role of cities will become more important, and proposing that a dynamic and creative relationship be built up between the local and the global. In this way, cities will remain the focus of social organization, political management and cultural expression, equipped to deal with the enormous social and environmental problems of urbanization.
This text challenges the belief that cities will eventually disappear as territorial forms of social organization as new information technologies perm...
