Mad Technology : How East Asian Companies Are Defending Their Technological Advantages

by Oh, Ingyu; Park, Hun-Joon; Honeyama, Shigemi; Kim, Hyuk-Rae

• ISBN13: 9781403945075
• ISBN10: 1403945071
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-04-02
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

At the end of the Cold War, the global economic system encountered a new phenomenon in the field of knowledge creation and technological innovation--the birth of mad technologies. This book analyzes major changes in the national innovation systems (NIS) due to the introduction of mad technologies in East Asia. The authors find that mad technologies were the cause of stock market crashes and economic uncertainties in the region and conclude that successful corporations use various measures to neutralize mad technologies and/or incorporate them into the NIS.

Author Biography

Ingyu Oh is Professor of Organizational Behaviour and Innovation at the Graduate School of Management, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan.

Hun-Joon Park is Professor and Associate Dean of the Graduate School of Management at Yonsei University, Korea.

Shigemi Yoneyama is Professor of Management at Musashi University, Japan.

Hyuk-Rae Kim is Professor Korean Studies at the Graduate School of International Studies at Yonsei University, Korea.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	vi
List of Tables	viii
Preface	ix
1 Introduction	1	(12)
2 Globalization and "Mad" Technology	13	(14)
3 Changes of NIS in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan	27	(26)
4 National R&D Investments in Korea	53	(34)
5 Innovation Strategies of the Korean Chaebols	87	(16)
6 The Semiconductor Industry in Taiwan	103	(20)
7 Japan's Commercialization Problem	123	(16)
8 Why Governance Reforms are Not Effective	139	(16)
9 Prospects for East Asian Economic Governance	155	(18)
10 Conclusions	173	(6)
References	179	(19)
Index	198