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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive book captures the transition of Asian national innovation systems in the era of the global learning economy.
The success of Asian economies (first Japan, then Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong and, more recently, China and India) has made it tempting to look for 'an Asian model of development'. However, the strength of Asian development lies less in strategies that reproduce successful national systems of innovation and more in the capacity for institutional change to open up new development trajectories with greater emphasis on knowledge and learning. The select group of contributors demonstrate that although there are important differences among Asian countries in terms of institutional set-ups supporting innovation, government policies and industrial structures, they share common transitional processes to cope with the globalizing learning economy.
With strong implications for policy makers, Asia's Innovation Systems in Transition will be of great interest to academics and postgraduate students as well as national and international policy organizations.
Table of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Asia’s Innovation Systems in Transition: An Introduction Bengt-Åke Lundvall, Patarapong Intarakumnerd and Jan Vang 2. Opportunities for Asian Countries to Catch Up with Knowledge-Based Competition Tilman Altenburg 3. Transnational Communities, Offshore Outsourcing and Offshore Subsidiaries: The Case of the Indian IT Service Industry Jan Vang and Mikkel Lucas Overby 4. Effectively Linking International, National and Regional Innovation Systems: Insights from India and Indonesia Martina Fromhold-Eisebith 5. Thailand’s National Innovation System in Transition Patarapong Intarakumnerd 6. Hong Kong’s Innovation System in Transition: Challenges of Regional Integration and Promotion of High Technology Erik Baark and Naubahar Sharif 7. The Indonesian Innovation System at a Crossroads Peter Gammeltoft and Erman Aminullah 8. Performance and Sources of Industrial Innovation in Korea's Innovation System Kong-Rae Lee 9. Advance of Science-based Industries and the Changing Innovation System of Japan Hiroyuki Odagiri 10. National Innovation Systems and India’s IT Capability: Are There Any Lessons for ASEAN Newcomers? Nagesh Kumar and K.J. Joseph 11. Innovating for Global Competition: Singapore’s Pathway to High-Tech Development Henry Wai-chung Yeung 12. Policy Learning as a Key Process in the Transformation of the Chinese Innovation Systems Shulin Gu and Bengt-Åke Lundvall Index
