Browsing School of Geography, Archaeology and Irish Studies by Author "Grimes, Seamus"
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Agricultural policy and land tenure in an Irish marginal country
Grimes, Seamus (Geographical Society of Ireland, 1988)This paper has a twofold objective. Firstly, recent land policy both at EEC and Irish government levels is evaluated from the perspective of the small family farm in County Lcitrim. one of Ireland's most marginal farming ... -
Beyond economics: redefining development
Grimes, Seamus (De Gruyter Open, 1992)Since the short-lived interlude of impressive growth and prosperity in the 1970s, the dual scourges of involuntary emigration and high unemployment have returned to plague Irish society. Having increasingly become part ... -
Big Pharma's internationalization of R&D to China
Grimes, Seamus; Miozzo, Marcela (Taylor & Francis, 2015-04-18)China's increasing integration into the global pharmaceutical value chain is occurring at a time when big pharma's traditional R&D model has entered a period of crisis, and when China faces significant challenges in providing ... -
Causes and consequences of fertility decline
Grimes, Seamus (De Gruyter Open, 1993)While there is widespread concern throughout Europe during the current period of economic recession with high levels of unemployment and the recent upsurge in refugee movements associated with the serious ethnic conflict ... -
China's emerging role in the global semiconductor value chain
Grimes, Seamus; Du, Debin (Elsevier, 2020-04-18)The global model of semiconductor development has resulted in an asymmetric and interdependent relationship between China's critical role in semiconductor production and those regions such as the US which control the key ... -
China's evolving role in Apple's global value chain
Grimes, Seamus; Sun, Yutao (Taylor & Francis, 2016-07-27)Using Apple s 2015 published list of supplier companies and their subsidiaries, this paper analyses how one of the world s most significant lead technology companies and its network of core and non-core suppliers have ... -
China's increasing participation in ICT's global value chain: A firm level analysis
Sun, Yutao; Grimes, Seamus (Elsevier, 2015-07-07)This paper synthesises evidence from international trade data of China-based ICT companies in order to map their involvement in the ICT global value chain (GVC). The ICT GVC is divided into three types of companies: Own ... -
Cost competitive places: shifting fortunes and the closure of Dell's manufacturing facility in Ireland
Grimes, Seamus; Collins, Patrick (2011)In the early days of 2009 the city of Limerick in the mid-west region of Ireland was dealt a massive blow by the PC manufacturer Dell. After months, if not years, of speculation, the company had finally decided to move all ... -
The distribution of economic well-being within the Northwest region
Grimes, Seamus (De Gruyter Open, 1989)For many years, geographers have concerned themselves with the spatial dimension of economic development and with the fact that the pattern of development, whether it occurs under capitalist or socialist regimes, tends ... -
Economic well-being in the Ballymote rural area: myth and reality
Grimes, Seamus; O'Donohue, Brendan (Irish Province of the Society of Jesus, 1996)Despite the many negative indicators such as falling population and high emigration which are characteristic of the Northwest, the town of Ballymote appears to be booming. In explaining this apparent contradiction, ... -
The emerging dynamic structure of national innovation studies: a bibliometric analysis
Sun, Yutao; Grimes, Seamus (Springer Verlag, 2016-10-26)The state is still the significant unit for innovative studies during the age of R&D globalization and innovation regionalization. Using the bibliometric method, this paper attempts to provide a comprehensive picture of ... -
Exploiting information and communication technologies for rural development
Grimes, Seamus (Elsevier, 1992-07)This paper examines how information technology (IT) might be exploited to promote rural development; it also considers how IT impacts on the rural periphery. The appropriate adaptation of this technology for indigenous ... -
The faster the better? Economic effects of the speed of inter‐city technology transfer in China
Duan, Dezhong; Du, Debin; Grimes, Seamus (Wiley, 2019-06-18)Although existing studies questioned the simple positive correlation between the technology transfer speed and the benefits, they have been widely condemned for lacking em-pirical evidence. Using the ... -
Foreign R&D in China: An evolving innovation landscape
Grimes, Seamus (Edward Elgar, 2014)[No abstract available] -
From foreign technology dependence towards greater innovation autonomy: China's integration into the information and communications technology (ICT) global value chain (GVC)
Grimes, Seamus; Yang, Chun (Taylor & Francis, 2017-03-30)China s integration into the information and communications technology global value chain has taken place as global technology corporations outsourced and offshored an increasing range of functions, including manufacturing, ... -
How well are Europe's rural businesses connected to the digital economy?
Grimes, Seamus (Taylor and Francis, 2004-09)As economic activity becomes increasingly globalized, partly by means of new information and communication technologies (ICTs), one of the key expectations of European policy-makers was that businesses in rural regions, ... -
The ideology of population control in the UN draft plan for Cairo
Grimes, Seamus (Springer, 1994-09)This paper examines the influence of population control ideology on the draft plan for the UN Cairo Conference on Population and Development. It is argued that this draft plan can only be fully understood in the context ... -
Impact of crime on the rural elderly
Breen, E.; Fogarty, G; Burke, G.; Grimes, Seamus (Irish Medical Organisation, 1990-03)Two hundred and seven persons over 65 years of age were interviewed to determine the impact of crime on their lives. The setting was during a much publicised series of assaults on the rural elderly in their homes. Seventy ... -
Implications of China's on-going dependence on foreign technology
Grimes, Seamus; Sun, Yutao (Elsevier, 2014-05-04)This paper examines the on-going high level of dependency of China's economy on foreign sources of technology during the period since accession to the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Because this dependency is a major cause ... -
Interview with Séamus Grimes, Emeritus Professor, NUI Galway, Ireland
Grimes, Seamus (IDATE DigiWorld, 2017)[No abstract available}