Seamus Grimes and Gerry Lyons

1994

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Entrepreneurship & Regional Development: An International Journal

Information technology and rural development: unique opportunity or potential threat?

In Press

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information technology rural periphery the Irish development model

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The less deterministic view of the potential contribution of information technology to rural development suggests a range of possible outcomes including centralization and decentralization. Evidence from the Republic of Ireland indicates a weak trend towards rural areas benefiting from the new technologies, and an expansion of the information economy in the urban core.

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08985629400000013

http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08985629400000013