The 1990s brought surprising industrial development in emerging economies around the globe: firms in countries not previously known for their high-technology industries moved to the forefront in new Information Technologies (IT) by using different business models and carving out unique positions...

Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. Plurality, Choice, and the Politics of Industrial Innovation -- 2. The Development of the IT Industry in Israel: Maximization of R&amp -- D as an Industrial Policy -- 3. The Development of the IT...

This paper advances an argument about the need to take into account two components of state-industry relations if we are to fully understand economic development and policy trajectory, as well as industry-state co-evolution. The first component, the specific structure of the bureaucracy and...