Taiwan has a Nice Problem of Innovation for Growth 205.0
Posted by m beduya on April 30, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Policy planners are already doing detail policy research before they execute For this my last post from the 7th Asialics in Taipei, I peg my notes on a paper presented in the technology and industry stream on (a) the nice Taiwanese problem of innovation for growth and (b) the detail research activity done by policy [...]
Learning National Innovation Systems from Taiwan 204.0
Posted by m beduya on April 27, 2010 · 13 Comments
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 [...]
Filed under Books and Journals, Discovering economic locomotives and attaining competitiveness through modern industrial policy, National Innovation Systems · Tagged with Akamatsu Kaname, ASIALICS, Bengt-Ake Lundvall, Caesar Cororaton, DUI-Learning, flying geese, innovation systems, intensive learning, Philippines, productivity, Social Innovation, Taiwan, total factor productivity
Four Great Books I Bought While in Taiwan 201.0
Posted by m beduya on April 19, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Four interesting books to support a habit that is almost a vice As is my habit, I visited the biggest bookstore in town and ended up buying two books. In Taipei, the biggest is Eslite Bookstore sitting on 8,000 square meters in its own Mall on Xinyi. It has many branches in Taipei and all [...]
Filed under Books and Journals, Miscellaneous · Tagged with ASIALICS, behavioural economics, catch-up, Kinokuniya, Social Graph, Swindon, Taiwan
