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Title Innovation policy and the limits of laissez-faire : Hong Kong's policy in comparative perspective / edited by Douglas B. Fuller
Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 326 pages) : illustrations
Contents University-industry Collaboration and Technology Transfer in Hong Kong and Knowledge-based Economic Growth; D.C. Mowery -- Enhancing HKSAR's Innovation System: Is there a Role for Public Policy? P. Kam Wong -- Human Resources: Hong Kong's Challenges and Opportunities; D.M. Hart & F. Tian -- Workforce Development in Hong Kong; V. Wadhwa -- On Reform of Hong Kong's Public Research Funding System; Chintay Shih and Shin-Horng Chen -- Hong Kong's Venture Capital System and the Commercialization of New Technology; K. Au & S. White -- Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta: Science and Technology Cooperation; A. Segal -- Manufacturing for a Post-Manufacturing City; E. Thun -- Biotechnology in Hong Kong: Prospects and Challenges; J. Wong -- Government Neglect and the Decline of Hong Kong's Integrated Circuit Design Industry; D.B. Fuller -- Hong Kong's New Creative Industries: The Example of the Video Games Sector; F.T. Tschang -- Environmental Technology: Hong Kong's Innovation System; A. Sunami
University-industry collaboration and technology transfer in Hong Kong and knowledge-based economic growth / David C. Mowery -- Hong Kong's intellectual property rights regime and innovation policy / Poh-Kam Wong -- Human resources : Hong Kong's challenges and opportunities / David M. Hart and Fangmeng Tian -- Workforce development in Hong Kong / Vivek Wadhwa -- On reform of Hong Kong's public research funding system / Chintay Shih and Shin-Horng Chen -- Hong Kong's venture capital system and the commercialization of new technology / Kevin Au and Steven White -- Hong Kong and the Pearl River delta : science and technology cooperation / Adam Segal -- Manufacturing for a post-manufacturing city / Eric Thun -- Biotechnology in Hong Kong : prospects and challenges / Joseph Wong -- Government neglect and the decline of Hong Kong's integrated circuit design industry / Douglas B. Fuller -- Hong Kong's new creative industries : the example of the video games sector / F. Ted Tschang -- Environmental technology : Hong Kong's innovation system / Atsushi Sunami
Summary In the wake of China's economic reforms in 1978, Hong Kong's industrial economy migrated northward, and it could have set about developing a knowledge-intensive economy. But while Hong Kong's early industrialization was a runaway success, its transformation into a new kind of economy has been beset by problems. In this book, leading experts lay the blame on Hong Kong's laissez-faire tradition. Hong Kong's innovation performance is assessed from regional and global perspectives while examining specific industries and economy-wide institutions for innovation. The lesson drawn is that in countries lacking both large businesses equipped with developed innovation capabilities and institutions for fostering the creation, diffusion, and commercialization of knowledge, laissez-faire just doesn't work. It is this policy of 'positive non-intervention' that has crippled Hong Kong's knowledge economy and prevented it from becoming the global center of innovation that it had the potential to become. The authors, nevertheless, point to sectors of Hong Kong's economy that offer potential promise, and they seek to show how a nimbler government hand could help the knowledge economy thrive. This book will appeal to all who are interested in the dynamic East Asian economic region. But more than that, it provides a case study of the respective merits of big versus small government, a topic as heated now as it has ever been
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Information technology -- Economic aspects -- China -- Hong Kong
Technological innovations -- Government policy -- China -- Hong Kong
Economic development -- Technological innovations -- China -- Hong Kong
Free enterprise -- China -- Hong Kong
Economics of industrial organisation -- Hong Kong.
International business -- Hong Kong.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Industrial Technology.
Economics.
Economic development -- Technological innovations
Free enterprise
Information technology -- Economic aspects
Technological innovations -- Government policy
China -- Hong Kong
Form Electronic book
Author Fuller, Douglas B., editor.
LC no. 2010027507
ISBN 9780230304116
0230304117
9781349323890
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9781283266376
9786613266378
661326637X
0230304125
9780230304123