The Internet: Where Does Florida Stand?

Abstract

Technology is now among the factors that make a place competitive. State-of-the-art economic development no longer focuses on "chasing" high technology companies, but has given way to building knowledge, networks, and collaboration. Newer, "fourth wave" of policies that have emerged since the mid-1990s now comprise a mix of public-sector policies to integrate local economies into global markets, develop local human capital resources, and increase use of telecommunications as a development tool (Clarke and Gaile 1998).