Technology, Competitiveness and the State : Malaysia's Industrial Technology Policies.
Material type: TextSeries: Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of AsiaPublisher: London : Taylor & Francis Group, 1999Copyright date: ©1999Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (285 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780203031179Subject(s): Industrial policy -- Malaysia | Industrialization -- Malaysia | Technological innovations -- MalaysiaGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Technology, Competitiveness and the State : Malaysia's Industrial Technology PoliciesDDC classification: 338.06409595 LOC classification: T27.M4 -- T43 1999ebOnline resources: Click to ViewCover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 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 system -- 8 Improving Malaysian industrial technology policies and institutions -- 9 Managing research utilisation in Malaysia -- 10 Skilled and unskilled foreign labour in Malaysian development - a strategic shift? -- Index.
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.
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