Investment in Innovation: an "Instrumental Analysis" Based on the Tasmaninan and New Brunswick Information Technology Strategies

J. Courvisanos

Working Papers from Tasmania - Department of Economics

Abstract: The Tasmaninan Government has recently followed the reputably successful New Brunswick Government of Canada in setting up an industrial strategy to build an information technolgy (IT) industry of significance. The strategy aims to overcome isolation in small region-based economies and structurally change from declining natural resource based industries.

Keywords: INVESTMENTS; INNOVATIONS; TECHNOLOGY; INDUSTRIAL POLICY (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E22 L10 O31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998

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