In the Asia-Pacific region, there is a growing move to explore a new growth paradigm. Innovation is the central theme of this activity. In Europe, there is a tendency to regard the rise of Asian emerging countries as a threat with their increasing innovative capacity. For Japan, does their rise...

This article examines productivity growth in the Indonesian manufacturing sector. We use a longitudinal data set to calculate the effects on aggregate manufacturing productivity growth from improvements within establishments, from reallocation of market shares, and from the turnover of plants....