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emeritus Prof. Seamus Grimes

B.A. (UCD) M.Phil. (NUU) Ph.D (NSW)
Room:	101 Arts/Science Building
Tel:	353 91 492636
Fax:	353 91 495505
e-mail:	seamus.grimesnuigalway.ie

Kenya in Transition Kenya may not be there yet, but it is making giant strides despite the odds Seamus Grimes, Daily Nation 19 November 2012 read..... here Population Explosion in Africa: Truths and Myths Focus on population growth takes attention off basic needs like food Daily Nation 7 Dec 2012 read... here Innovation in China: winner takes all The China R&D Dilemma for Foreign Tech Companies [INTERVIEW] Techinasia 27 August 2012 read..... here

Innovation in China, 4th International Congress on Innovation, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 16-17 November 2011 here

Seamus has published widely in international journals on a range of issues in human geography. His specialist area of research in recent years has been Ireland’s technology sector, particularly the role of foreign subsidiaries, and their evolution over time from manufacturing to involvement in internationally traded services. He has also published on the role of information and communication technologies in regional and rural development. He is currently director of the research cluster on internationally traded services in the Centre for Innovation and structural Change at NUI, Galway. He also pursues long terms interests in ethical issues in geography, including the deconstruction of population policy ideologies.

Main Areas of Interest

Economic geography; foreign investment and multinational subsidiary evolution in Ireland and China; the technology and internationally traded services sectors; population geography; Kenya; geography and philosophy

Research

Centre for Innovation and Structural Change ( CISC)
CISC was awarded €1.1m under PRTLI 4 as part of the Irish Social Science Platform (connecting seven institutes of higher education across Ireland). The area of our involvement with funding for a three year postdoctoral fellowship relates to ’Building of the knowledge society/economy’. Our work will look at Ireland’s repositioning in the global economy in relation to the technology sector. Professor Seamus Grimes and Dr Patrick Collins are the main researchers.

The EU-China Information Society Project
Yangquan, China, July 2006

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Sample Publications

Seamus Grimes and Debin Du, Foreign and Indigenous Innovation in China: Some Evidence from Shanghai, European Planning Studies pp. 1-17 | Jan 2013 http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/6Xwdb4HGjBUdVCEKDI9x/full

Collins, P., and Grimes, S., Ireland’s foreign-owned technology sector: evolving towards sustainability? Growth and Change, 2008, 39(3), 436-463

Grimes, S and Collins, P., The contribution of the overseas ICT sector to expanding R&D investment in Ireland, Irish Geography, 2009, 42(1), 45-67

Grimes, S. and Roper, S. (2009) Knowledge-based Competition: Implications for Sustainable Development in Rural Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, In McDonagh, J., Varley, T. and Shortall, S. (eds) A Living Countryside? The Politics of Sustainable Development in Rural Ireland, Ashgate, Farnham

Grimes, S., Ireland’s emergence as a centre for internationally traded services, Regional Studies, 2006, 40(9), 1041-1054

With White, M., The transition to internationally-traded services and Ireland’s emergence as a ’successful’ European region’, Environment and Planning A (2005, 37, 2169-2188)

Grimes, S. (2005) How well are Europe’s rural businesses connected to the digital economy? European Planning Studies, 13(7), 1063-1081

With Roper, S., Wireless Valley, Silicon Wadi and Digital Island – Helsinki, T el Aviv and Dublin and the new economy GPN, Geoforum, 2004 available online

The digital Economy Challenge facing peripheral Rural Areas, Progress in Human Geography, 27 (2) 2003, 174-194

With Collins, P. Building a knowledge Economy in Ireland through European Research Websites, European Planning Studies, 11 (4), 2003, 395-413.

Attracting Information Technology investment to Ireland’s branch plant economy. In Roche, E.M. and Bakis, H. (eds) Developments in Telecommunications - Between Global and Local, Aldershot, Ashgate, 1997 209-232

From population control to reproductive rights: ideological influences in population policy, Third World Quarterly, 19(3), 1998, 365-383

Exploring the ethics of development. In Proctor, J.D. and Smith, D.M. (eds) Geography and Ethics: Journeys in a Moral Terrain, Routledge, 1999, 59-71

Rural areas in the Information Society: diminishing distance or increasing learning capacity? Journal of Rural Studies, 16(1) 2000 13-21.

Comment on Matthew Hannah and Ulf Strohmayer "Anatomy of debate in human geography", Political Geography, 20(7), 2001, 127-132.

With P. Collins: The role of telematics in integrating Ireland into Europe's information society, European Planning Studies, 10 (8), 2002, 971-986.

Ireland's emerging information economy: recent trends and future prospects, Regional Studies, 37(1) 2003, 3-14.

Grimes, S., Ireland’s emergence as a centre for internationally traded services, Regional Studies, 2006, 40(9), 1041-1054

Discipline of Geography
National University of Ireland, Galway, University Road, Galway, Ireland
Tel.: +353 (0)91 49 2643
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