Japan has advanced to a leading position in numerous fields of technology since the beginning of the 1980s. The Japanese have also been a major supplier of technology to the rest of Asia. However, as Japan's technological level has risen and technology trade with foreign countries has become more balanced, acquiring leading edge technology from external sources has become increasingly difficult. In order to preserve long-term international competitiveness, Japan must strengthen its domestic system of innovation. This book demonstrates that long-awaited changes to the technology policy and...

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...

Singapore's phenomenal transformation from Third World to First World status has been of great interest to economists around the world yet there has been little quantitative research done on its economy and institutions. This innovative new research monograph fills the lacunae by presenting the Singapore economy through a macroeconometric model and laying the foundations for further research.

Using formal econometric analysis and novel modelling techniques, Abeysinghe and Choy offer rare insights into how the Singapore economy works. Each of the major chapters discusses the...