Using China's semiconductor design industry as a case, this article examines the claims made by global production network (GPN) and transnational technology community (TTC) scholars that transnational networks are driving technological development in emerging economies. Due to co-ethnic...

" ... delivers a critical wake-up call: a fierce global race for innovation advantage is under way, and while other nations are making support for technology and innovation a central tenet of their economic strategies and policies, America lacks a robust innovation policy. What does this...

This important book delivers a critical wake-up call: a fierce global race for innovation advantage is under way, and while other nations are making support for technology and innovation a central tenet of their economic strategies and policies, America lacks a robust innovation policy. What...

Innovation has powered America’s economy, creating good jobs and a high standard of living. Yet, the U.S. share of innovation-based industries is in decline, jeopardizing our status as the world’s innovation leader. And one reason is that the United States has been unable to produce enough...

Purpose: To explore the limitations of the national system of innovation (NSI) approach in developing economies with at best incomplete sets of market institutions. Design/Methodology/Approach: This paper employed a grounded theory approach using semi-structured interviews to explore a case...

Since the end of WWII, the United States was the leading force globally for free trade. Since the early 1980s, it was also the leading force for laissezfaire economics, promoting the “Washington Consensus” of limited government and free markets, both at home and abroad. That era has...