Technology, Competitiveness and the State: Malaysia's Industrial Technology Policies

by Greg Felker, K. S. Jomo

Overview

This volume, and its companion, Industrial Technology Development in Malaysia, examine and evaluate Malaysian industrialization in terms of its experience of and prospects for industrial technology development. The focus is on role played by state-sponsored innovation in the process economic development and in the context of national development st

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134642076
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/13/1999
Series:	Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
File size:	13 MB
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About the Author

Greg Felker, K. S. Jomo

Table of Contents

1. Instroduction 2. Technology, Competitiveness and Governance 3. Technological Capability Development by Firms from East Asian NIEs: Possible Lessons for Malaysia 4. Complexity and Hierarchy in the East Asian Division of Labour: Japanese Technological Superiority and ASEAN industrial Development 5. Malaysia's Innovation System: Actors, Interests and Governance 6. Technology Policy and Competitiveness in Malaysia 7. Malaysia's National Innovation Capacity 8. Improving Malaysian Industrial Technology Policies and Insitutions 9. Managing Research Utilisation in Malaysia 10. Skilled and Unskilled Foreign Labour in Malaysian Development - A Strategic Shift?

Editorial Reviews

Economics, trade, politics, social science, development, and area studies are among the disciplines represented by authors of the 10 essays. In light of the shift from low wages to industrial technology to try to maintain the economic growth in the southern Asian country, they examine and evaluate Malaysian industrialization in terms of its experience of and prospects for development, focusing on the role played by state-sponsored innovation in the process of economic development and in the context of national development strategies. Their topics include technological capability development by firms from east Asian newly industrializing economies and possible lessons for Malaysia, complexity and hierarchy in the east Asian division of labor, and managing research. A companion volume is . Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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