Run them, it is important to place some boundaries on the endeavor. My boundaries are narrow and clear. I have focused on only one of the state's pasks promoting industrial growth. The empirical discussion is even more specific the growth of local information technology (IT) industries. In addition, I am primarily concerned with a particular set of states newly industrializing countries (NICs). Within this set, the empirical narrative draws primarily on the experiences of Brazil, India, and Korea during the 1970s and 1980s. Despite the boundaries, the hubris remains. The underlyingaim is to understand state structures and roles, relations between state and society, and how states contribute to development
In this chapter I will try to do three will begin with a brief excursus on how responsibility for economic transformation has become increasingly central to the state's role. Then I will set economic transformation at a national level in the context of a global division of labor Finally,i will try to explain the conceptual approach and strategies of investigation that lie behind the analysis