The success of Asian economies (first Japan, then Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong and, more recently, China and India) has made it tempting to look for "an Asian model of development". However, the strength of Asian development lies less in strategies that reproduce successful national...

Aristotle's Three States of Knowledge -- Vannevar Bush's Fateful Omission -- Coalition Eisenhower Didn't Foresee -- Development vs Research -- Everett Roger's Innovation Definition -- Federal Laboratory Consortium -- Government Bias in Funding -- Project Hindsight vs TRACES -- Idea Factory...