text: The Information Society and the Welfare State : The Information Society and the Welfare StateThe Finnish Model Oxford Scholarship Online
  The Information Societ...
  Silicon Valley has been considered as the model that societies must imitate to succeed in the information age. However, recently another alternative has attracted strong international interest: the Finnish model. This is equally dynamic in technological and economic terms, but combines the information society with the welfare state. This book looks at what the Finnish model really is. The chapters analyse the factors that have enabled Nokia to become the world's leading telecommunications company, for example, and Linux to become the biggest challenger to Microsoft in the operating systems mar ... More
  DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199256990.001.0001
  Manuel Castells, Author
  Professor of Sociology and Professor of City and Regional Planning, University of California at Berkeley