Table of Contents

Contents: Acknowledgements Foreword by Chris Freeman Part I: Introduction: East Asia’s Technological Development Part II: East Asian Regional Dynamics Part III: The Latecomer Firm Part IV: The Republic of Korea: Catching up in Large Corporations Part V: Taiwan: Small Firms Innovation Clusters Part VI: Singapore: A Test Case of Leapfrogging Part VII: Hong Kong: Laissez-faire Techological Development Part VIII: Conclusions and Implications Bibliography Index

About the Author

Michael Hobday, Formerly Visiting Professor, CENTRIM, University of Brighton, UK, UK

Reviews

'Hobday provides an extraordinary interesting blow-by-blow account of how East Asian firms developed their present formidable competencies in electronics technology. . . . he also provides a fascinatingly detailed account of a large number of East Asian companies that currently are quite sophisticated in electronics.'