Technology and Industrial Parks in Emerging Countries

Technology and Industrial Parks in Emerging Countries

Author: Andrés Rodríguez-Pose

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-06-16

Total Pages: 115

ISBN-13: 3319079921

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Industrial and technology parks are commonly regarded as a policy panacea. They tend to be considered as the ideal instrument to alleviate an assortment of institutional, political, economic, social and ultimately, technological weaknesses and often form the centrepiece of development strategies. Yet, the real impact of industrial and technology parks, especially in emerging countries is still poorly understood. Focusing on examples from Latin America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East, the book represents a first approach to understand the potential and reality of industrial and technology parks in emerging countries. It is argued that although some parks have been successful in addressing a range of key problems, including underdevelopment, unemployment and a lack of investment, the majority have failed to deliver, rendering the promise of many parks little more than a pipedream.


Information Technology Parks of the Asia Pacific

Information Technology Parks of the Asia Pacific

Author: Meheroo Jussawalla

Publisher: M.E. Sharpe

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 9780765611444

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This work compares IT parks in China, India, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, and Hawaii, in search of strategies that policy makers can employ to reduce the Global Digital Divide, advance distributional equity and soften some of the negative effects of economic globalization.


Special Economic Zones in Asian Market Economies

Special Economic Zones in Asian Market Economies

Author: Connie Carter

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-09-13

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 113690171X

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This book is the first to examine the Asian experience of special economic zones (SEZs) in China, India, Malaysia and the Philippines. It explores the origins, nature and status of these zones in Asia, together with the current trends connected with them, and the challenges they currently face.


What Is In A Rim?

What Is In A Rim?

Author: Arif Dirlik

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-11-28

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 1000009858

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In this volume, scholars question the current euphoria over the rapid growth of the Pacific rim - as an economic region and as a political ideal. They suggest that much of the discourse on the region is highly ideological, focusing on its potential for capitalist development while ignoring the limitations of such development, its human costs and consequences. This critique of the idea of a Pacific rim also seeks to redress the balance by focusing on the region in terms of human interactions.


Technopolis

Technopolis

Author: Deog-Seong Oh

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-12-13

Total Pages: 503

ISBN-13: 1447155084

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Six years of UNESCO-World Technopolis Association workshops, held at various world cities and attended by government officials and scholars from nearly all the world’s countries, have resulted in a uniquely complete collection of reports on science park and science city projects in most of those countries. These reports, of which a selected few form chapters in this book, allow readers to compare knowledge-based development strategies, practices, and successes across countries. The chapters illustrate varying levels of cooperation across government, industry, and academic sectors in the respective projects – and the reasons and philosophies underlying this variation - and resulting differences in practices and results.


The Silicon Empire

The Silicon Empire

Author: Michael B. Likosky

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-01-18

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 1351145266

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Michael Likosky examines the continuities and discontinuities between colonial and present-day high tech transnational legal orders. His concern is specifically with the colonial characteristics of the legal order which underpins the global high tech economy. He distinguishes the democratic and human rights rhetoric of this economy from a reality wherein the legal order is often used to reproduce colonial-type relationships. Just as in the colonial period, the expansion of trans-border commerce overlaps with democratic demands and human rights in complex, multifaceted and paradoxical ways. Through a case study looking at Malaysia's Multimedia Super Corridor, a high tech national development plan and foreign direct investment scheme, he examines how the transnational leaders of the high tech economy along with the Malaysian political elite react when human rights problems threaten to derail commercial plans.


Remapping East Asia

Remapping East Asia

Author: T. J. Pempel

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2018-08-06

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 1501732099

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An overarching ambiguity characterizes East Asia today. The region has at least a century-long history of internal divisiveness, war, and conflict, and it remains the site of several nettlesome territorial disputes. However, a mixture of complex and often competing agents and processes has been knitting together various segments of East Asia. In Remapping East Asia, T. J. Pempel suggests that the region is ripe for cooperation rather than rivalry and that recent "region-building" developments in East Asia have had a substantial cumulative effect on the broader canvas of international politics. This collection is about the people, processes, and institutions behind that region-building. In it, experts on the area take a broad approach to the dynamics and implications of regionalism. Instead of limiting their focus to security matters, they extend their discussions to topics as diverse as the mercurial nature of Japan's leadership role in the region, Southeast Asian business networks, the war on terrorism in Asia, and the political economy of environmental regionalism. Throughout, they show how nation-states, corporations, and problem-specific coalitions have furthered regional cohesion not only by establishing formal institutions, but also by operating informally, semiformally, or even secretly.


Industrial Clusters, Upgrading and Innovation in East Asia

Industrial Clusters, Upgrading and Innovation in East Asia

Author: Akifumi Kuchiki

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2011-01-01

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 0857935135

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This lucid and informative book analyzes the problems of clusters in transition through studies of agglomerations at different stages of development in various East Asian countries. The contributors reconsider industrial cluster policy within a more dynamic and long-term framework, and explore how regional transformations can bring new insights to the theory of agglomeration and innovation. By identifying the factors and policies to promote upgrading, the authors establish the theoretical and policy basis for transforming industrial clusters from production-oriented to innovation-oriented agglomerations. They also study the important structural changes in the region, such as FTAs and the role of the WTO, and the consequent effects on clusters. Researchers and students of Asian economics, industrial clusters and innovation will find this incisive book invaluable. It will also prove to be a compelling read for policymakers in developing countries or international development organizations.


The Oxford Handbook of Industrial Hubs and Economic Development

The Oxford Handbook of Industrial Hubs and Economic Development

Author: Arkebe Oqubay

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2020-07-23

Total Pages: 1370

ISBN-13: 0192590944

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Industrialization supported by industrial hubs has been widely associated with structural transformation and catch-up. But while the direct economic benefits of industrial hubs are significant, their value lies first and foremost in their contribution as incubators of industrialization, production and technological capability, and innovation. The Oxford Handbook of Industrial Hubs and Economic Development adopts an interdisciplinary approach to examine the conceptual underpinnings, review empirical evidence of regions and economies, and extract pertinent lessons for policy reasearchers and practitioners on the key drivers of success and failure for industrial hubs. This Handbook illustrates the diverse and complex nature of industrial hubs and shows how they promote industrialization, economic structural transformation, and technological catch-up. It explores the implications of emerging issues and trends such as environmental protection and sustainability, technological advancement, shifts in the global economy, and urbanization.