1st Edition

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

By Greg Felker, K. S. Jomo Copyright 1999

    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.

    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?

    Biography

    Greg Felker, K. S. Jomo