In the past two decades, US-Asia linkages have improved tremendously with the gradual transformation of some Asian countries as sources of high skilled as well as low cost labor. Extensive research on US-Japan relationships have been undertaken in the 1980s and the 1990s with a progression of...

1. Introduction / Maureen McKelvey and Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen -- 2. To boldly go ... : characteristics of China's innovation policy / Enrico Deiaco and Carl Jeding -- 3. The role of intellectual property rights in innovation spaces : the cases of China and India / Marcus Holgersson -- 4....

Innovation Spaces in Asia provides insight into how and why Asia is poised to impact global innovation. Asia is undergoing rapid developments in markets, sources of technology and user preferences. This book provides an empirical understanding and initial conceptualization of these dynamic...