Technology, Learning, and Innovation2000

"Contributed by leading scholars in technology and innovation, this volume presents ten original essays and four commentaries that discuss how newly industrializing economies (NIEs), particularly those in East Asia, have transformed themselves over the past thirty years from technologically backward and poor to relatively modern and affluent economies. They provide interesting theoretical perspectives and the insightful understanding of the process of technological progress in these economies at both the macro and micro levels.

The essays discuss how firms, particularly those in electronics and automobiles, have dynamically accumulated technological capabilities at the micro level and how public policies have shaped the process of technological progress at the national level, and they...