A large body of research has thoroughly discussed and examined agglomeration advantages for innovation of geographically concentrated firms. However, there is an increasing awareness that this intellectual tradition tends to overemphasize the role of geographic proximity in the transfer of...

Collaborative research has been increasingly celebrated by the science community, but the hypothesized positive relationship between research collaboration and research output is more assumed than rigorously tested. In this paper, we identify three methodological gaps in the literature: (a)...

While most services innovation studies are concentrated on the OECD or EU countries, research on services innovation in the non-OECD context is still rare. This study investigates innovation behaviour of a certain group of services -- knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS), compared with...

Since the late 1980s, Singapore has emerged as a major regional hub for magnetic hard disk drive (HDD) assembly operations, accounting for about half of the world's total HDD output. This paper examines how this came about by analyzing the supply infrastructure needed to support the competitive...

The flat panel display industry (encompassing products such as LCDs for laptop computers) is of interest as a global industry with rapid technological turnover where in place of the East catching up with the West, it is a case of the West trying to catch up with the technologically advanced...