CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2008
| Author | Yaroshchuk, Maryna |
|---|---|
| Title | THE EVOLUTION OF IT INDUSTRY IN ESTONIA AND UKRAINE: THE ROLE OF THE STATE AND THE MARKET IN INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORKS |
| Summary | This research explores the role of the state (via governmental policies and programs) and the market (via FDI) in shaping the institutions, indispensable for the success of the IT industry in Ukraine and Estonia. To trace the evolution of the IT industry in the 1990s and the 2000s in the two countries, such institutional arrangements as skill formation, R&D, capital provision, infrastructure and intellectual property rights protection were selected, as they allow for a major contribution on behalf of state and market. The goal of the analysis is to establish how a different composition and interaction of these key players influenced the development of different IT industry profiles in Ukraine and Estonia. The finding that IT industry in Estonia has embarked on the innovation-driven path and product-based model is explained by the involvement of FDI and the increased government attention to the development of the national innovation framework, whereas in Ukraine the lack of the two stimulated the local software firms to export IT services, as it best “fits” the existing institutional environment. |
| Supervisor | Robert Hancke |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2008/yaroshchuk_maryna.pdf |
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