? Introducing the ‘innovation paradox’ as the main challenge to the West and the notion of ‘knowledge democracy’ as key to … Democracy, Innovation and Economic Efficiency -- Chapter 5: Knowledge Democracy as Key to the Twenty-First Century … social mutations that technologies have triggered. The cases of China and Italy form the research focus as two extremes in …

It is a widespread view that democracy and the advanced nation-state are in crisis, weakened by globalization and … preconditions for innovation and the promotion of the advanced sectors of the economy. Critically, this investment has generated … footloose nor unconstrained: it thrives under democracy precisely because it cannot subvert it. Populism, inequality, and …

country-studies on China, India, Indonesia and Vietnam, and sub-region studies on East Asia, Southeast Asia and South Asia …

Objectives, background, context -- Population trends in China and India: -- Demographic dividend or demographic drag …? -- China-India: a macroeconomic assessment -- Science and technology -- Chinese & Indian defense and defense procurement …