Learning National Innovation Systems from Taiwan 204.0
Much can still be learned but for Post-industrial Philippines. Professor Chu Wan-wen was one of the speakers at the 7th Asialics Roundtable session in Taipei. Her talk on Taiwan and “second-mover advantage” made me look up and buy her book, Beyond Late Development, (with Alice Amsden). Today, I just finished reading the book. I am [...]
Innovation Clusters from Flying Geese for ASEAN – 3 of 3
From Part II, the path to a richer, stronger and united ASEAN is long. The members are too economically diverse (see Table above) to unite quickly. Two strategies for convergence are possible. Firstly, a customs union on new, globally important products can link members up via trade for chosen products (see Post #20). Secondly, trade-oriented [...]
Possibility of an ASEAN Regional Innovation Cluster – 1 of 3
A multi-polar world – this is a scenario the US National Intelligence Council sees for the world in the next 20 years. The report, Global Trends 2025 A Transformed World (see Post #6), says that China and India will be global players with the U.S. and EU then.
Krugman Explains ASEAN Innovation and Total Factor Productivity 11.0
Professor Paul Krugman won the 2008 Nobel Prize for research in trade and geography. He gets this post because of his paper “The Myth of Asia’s Miracle” in Foreign Affairs, 1994. The paper had different findings than the World Bank on the tiger economies of Asia. Krugman said that the miracle was nothing more than [...]
