Recently, the role of returnees in the economic development of various East Asian nations has received much attention. The early literature on the relocation of the most highly trained individuals from a developing nation to a developed nation viewed the phenomena as a “brain drain.” Since...

This paper advances an argument about the need to take into account two components of state-industry relations if we are to fully understand economic development and policy trajectory, as well as industry-state co-evolution. The first component, the specific structure of the bureaucracy and...

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: An Invention of My Own -- 1 The White Knight Avoided: Economic Reforms and Innovation for Growth in China -- 2 Rules of the Run: The Politics of China's Institutions of Innovation -- 3 Beijing -- 4 Shanghai -- 5...