Centre for Innovation & Structural Change (CISC)

Professor Seamus Grimes B.A., M.A., PhD seamus.grimesnuigalway.ie Geography Department, NUI Galway 353 (0) 91 492636

Research interests:

Technology and development, Internationally-traded services, MNC evolution

Seamus Grimes is a graduate of University College Dublin, University of Ulster and the University of New South Wales, where he completed his PhD in geography. He returned to NUI, Galway in 1980 and has been teaching in the geography department. Since the early 1990s Professor Grimes has published widely on topics related to information technology and regional/rural development. More recently his research has focused on the technology sector in Ireland and the emergence of internationally traded services. Among the journals in which his papers have appeared are: Regional Studies, Environment and Planning A, Geoforum, European Planning Studies and Entrepreneurship and Regional Development. In addition to his work on technology-related development issues, he has also developed a deep interest in the philosophy of the social sciences.

Research projects:

"The Potential for Regionalising Internationally Traded Services" (Project Leader)

Publications, presentations etc:

Please click here for a list of Prof. Grimes' publications

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