Slide2:
USA
- neoliberalism
1/3 economy
and continues
dynamic
½ R&D ASIA
multinationals
attraction
~10% growth
expert educ.>
EU & USA EU
welfare state
lagging behind POOR DEVELOPING
COUNTRIES
- marginalized
gap between
the rich and poor
75:1
- knowledge gap [Figures are Goldman Sachs projections for 2050] 35$T 45$T 25$T
Project context:
Project context continuation to Himanen-Castells research, in which the previous phases have analyzed:
Finland and the EU (The Information Society and the Welfare State, Oxford University Press 2002)
Silicon Valley and the United States (Castells ed., Network Society: A Cross-Cultural Approach, London 2004)
Singapore
outcome of the China research 2004-2006:
a more empirically and theoretically grounded understanding of the Chinese development, critical to business and politics
a wider understanding of the logic of the global network society (the original theory has been largely developed based on the Western experience)