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

Informationen zum Autor Greg Felker, K. S. Jomo Klappentext 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 strategies. Technology, Competitiveness and the State, provides a valuable analysis of the technological development of a Newly Industrializing Country and reflects on whether existing development strategies can be maintained in the wake of the financial crises sweeping the East Asian economies. Zusammenfassung This book focuses on the role played by state- sponsored innovation in economic development and national development strategies. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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?

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• Authors: Greg Felker, Greg (Willamette University Felker, Greg Jomo Felker, Felker Greg, K. S. Jomo, K. S. (University of Malaya Jomo, Kwame Sundaram Felker Jomo, Jomo K. S., JOMO KWAME SUNDARAM FELKER GREG
• Assisted by: Greg Felker (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.05.1999
• EAN: 9780415197656
• ISBN: 978-0-415-19765-6
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia; Routledge Studies in Growth Ec; Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Malaysia, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, Political Economy, East Asia, Far East, Industry & industrial studies, Development economics & emerging economies, Development economics and emerging economies, Industry and industrial studies