This essay is a very personal homage to Lall's work on technological change and industrialization, in particular his pioneering study on technological capabilities, prepared for the OECD Development Centre (Lall, 1990). I will not seek to add yet another review of Lall's work. Instead, I will...

This paper examines the forces that drive Taiwan’s new strategy of “Upgrading through Low-Cost and Fast Innovation”. The first section highlights characteristics of Taiwan’s traditional “Global Factory” innovation model and examines the role of innovation policy in that model....

As an exclusionary property right, patents invite their use as a strategic weapon to shape markets and to reap monopoly rents through patent monetization. The increasing variety and global reach of Strategic Patenting strategies pose new and under-researched challenges for the international...