Varieties and Alternatives of Catching-up: Asian Development in the Context of the 21st Century (IDE-JETRO Series)

This book sheds new light on the advancement of various industries in developing Asian countries through an application and re-examination of catch-up industrialization theory. With contributors presenting their own perspectives on the progression of a range of different industries in Asia, this volume provokes readers to reconsider their current understanding of industrialization in latecomer countries. More specifically, the chapters discuss Taiwan's semiconductor industry, Korea's steel industry, and Malaysia's palm oil industry, amongst others. The authors also explore the 'catch-down' innovation strategy in China and India. __Varieties and Alternatives of Catching-up__ provides a thorough analysis of the strategies employed by numerous Asian countries to radically transform their low-income agricultural economies to middle-income industrialized ones. This book is essential reading for researchers and scholars interested in Asian economic development. Front Matter....Pages i-xviii Introduction: Varieties and Alternatives of Catching Up: Asian Development in the Context of the Twenty-First Century....Pages 1-26 Innovations Derived from Backwardness: The Case of Taiwan’s Semiconductor Industry....Pages 27-53 The Narrow ‘Breadth of R&D’ and the Bottleneck of Technological Catch-Up: A Case Study of Taiwan’s Flat Panel Display Industry from the Perspective of the R&D Strategy of AMOLED....Pages 55-87 Industrial Development and Linkage Formation in Korea: A Case Study of the FPD Industry....Pages 89-123 The Catch-Up Process in the Korean Steel Industry....Pages 125-151 Advantages of Backwardness and Linkage Effects: The Steel Industry in Asia....Pages 153-181 ‘Catch-Down’ Innovation in Developing Countries....Pages 183-210 Curse or Opportunity? A Model of Industrial Development for Natural Resource–Rich Countries on the Basis of Southeast Asian Experiences....Pages 211-246 Resource-Based Industrialization of the Malaysian Palm Oil Industry....Pages 247-276 The Development of the Indian Software Services Industry....Pages 277-297 Back Matter....Pages 299-314 Yukihito Sato, Hajime Sato, Editors. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.