Semiconductors represent a major building block of high-tech industry. This chapter analyzes the trajectory of China's rapidly growing semiconductor sector, focusing on the interplay among global technology developments, Chinese government policy, and three groups of firms: purely domestic...

Like every democratically elected president in Taiwan before her, in her first term, President Tsai proposed and implemented various industrial policies designed to create new or bolster hopefully emergent industries. Unfortunately, industrial policy has proven to be increasingly irrelevant in...

ITRI has been widely recognized as playing a major role in Taiwan’s technological transformation over the last thirty years. Taiwan’s ITRI stands out among the Northeast Asian Trio of “developmental states” as a state institution that often single-handedly led technological development...