What is it about?
The process of innovation becomes increasingly complex as countries move up the global value chain (GVC), calling for a tripartite partnership that involves the government, the industry, and the academy. This paper focuses on why and how these partnerships are formed as well as the different configurations of innovation partnerships for six developed and emerging economies in Asia. Importantly, in contrast to the West, innovation partnerships in Asia are mainly state-led. Through comparative case studies, this paper provides insights to the variety of state-led innovation partnerships in Asia.
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Why is it important?
Given Asia's huge economic potential, this paper contributes to our understanding of contemporary Asian political economy in two major ways: (1) providing a systematic and comparative analysis of state-led innovation partnerships in six emerging and developed Asian economies, and (2) combining the developmental state theory, social network analysis and the triple helix model of innovation to qualitatively elucidate the dynamics of innovation in Asia. By contrasting a variety of cases, this paper provides insights to the heterogeneity of innovation partnerships in Asia, and how these partnerships are formed and evolved through the auspices of the state.
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As Asian economies try to move up the global value chain (GVC), this is a timely publication that helps readers better understand the configurations and dynamics of innovation partnerships in Asia.
Dr Zhengqi Pan
National University of Singapore
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This page is a summary of: State-Led Innovation Partnerships, European Journal of East Asian Studies, January 2016, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/15700615-01501005.
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