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Joseph Wong - Betting on Biotech: Innovation and the Limits of Asia´s Developmental State - 9780801450327 - V9780801450327
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Betting on Biotech: Innovation and the Limits of Asia´s Developmental State

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Description for Betting on Biotech: Innovation and the Limits of Asia´s Developmental State Hardback. Num Pages: 216 pages, 4. BIC Classification: KCM; KCP; KNDH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 159 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.

After World War II, several late-developing countries registered astonishingly high growth rates under strong state direction, making use of smart investment strategies, turnkey factories, and reverse-engineering, and taking advantage of the postwar global economic boom. Among these economic miracles were postwar Japan and, in the 1960s and 1970s, the so-called Asian Tigers—Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan—whose experiences epitomized the analytic category of the "developmental state." In Betting on Biotech, Joseph Wong examines the emerging biotechnology sector in each of these three industrial dynamos. They have invested billions of dollars in biotech industries since the 1990s, but commercial blockbusters and commensurate ... Read more

The profound uncertainties of life-science-based industries such as biotech have forced these nations to confront a new logic of industry development, one in which past strategies of picking and making winners have given way to a new strategy of throwing resources at what remain very long shots. Betting on Biotech illuminates a new political economy of industrial technology innovation in places where one would reasonably expect tremendous potential—yet where billion-dollar bets in biotech continue to teeter on the brink of spectacular failure.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801450327
SKU
V9780801450327
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Joseph Wong
Joseph Wong is Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Political Science and Director of the Asian Institute at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Healthy Democracies: Welfare Politics in Taiwan and South Korea, also from Cornell, and coeditor of Political Transitions in Dominant Party Systems: Learning to Lose.

Reviews for Betting on Biotech: Innovation and the Limits of Asia´s Developmental State
Wong deftly evaluates the efforts of three Asian 'tigers'—Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan—to enter the biotechnology sector, seen by leaders in all three places as a vital industry of the future.... Compared to developing electronics, developing biotechnology is proving to be much more difficult, and their success in the field is far from assured.
Richard N. Cooper
Foreign ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Betting on Biotech: Innovation and the Limits of Asia´s Developmental State


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