Clusters and Economic Growth in Asia

This detailed book explores and provides insights into the development and transformation of various clusters, economies and industrial sectors in East and Southeast Asia.

The authors study a number of important issues including the role of information and communication technology in economic growth, an emerging biomedical cluster in South Korea, an industrial agglomeration of Taiwanese electronics firms in China, and different sectorial and regional growth models in China. They also investigate the increasing relevance of cluster policies and the need to understand them in the context of the institutional and structural transition of newly industrializing East Asian economies. The book moves on to study the technology intensity of FDI in Vietnam and the implications for economic growth and emerging clusters, as well as the origin and characteristics of foreign technology transfer in a Chinese aircraft industry cluster.

Clusters and Economic Growth in Asia will greatly appeal to academics, researchers, politicians, policy planners and industrial specialists, as well as those with a specific interest in clusters and economic growth in Asian economies.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Cluster policies and entrepreneurial states in East Asia
Chapter 2 Information and communication technology and economic growth of four Asian industrialized economies
Chapter 3 Industrial agglomeration of Taiwanese electronics firms in Dongguan, China: home effects and implications for industrial upgrading
Chapter 4 The rise of the biomedical cluster in Wonju, Korea
Chapter 5 The global economic crisis as leverage for emerging regional growth paths? Differentiated evidence from China – three years onwards
Chapter 6 Technological intensity of FDI in Vietnam – implications for future economic development and emerging clusters
Chapter 7 The aircraft industry as a tool for economic and industrial development – the case of Indonesia
Chapter 8 Foreign knowledge transfer in the development of aircraft industry clusters – the case of Chengdu, China