Schubert, Volker: Kulturelle Praktiken - Beobachtungen aus Schulen und Betrieben in Japan. - S. 6-14 Bromann, Silke: Institutioneller Wandel auf dem japanischen Arbeitsmarkt am Beispiel der beruflichen Qualifizierung. - S. 15-26 Chiavacci, David: "Globalisierung" des japanischen Arbeitsmarktes :...

The Korean government believes it can turn the country into one of the top 10 competitive economies by 2010. This volume offers an in-depth analysis of the Korean innovation system and shows how its science and technology policies actually work. As Korea's economy is now reaching the status of a...

The Northeast Asian security environment is closely linked to Korea's growth perspectives for the future. The spectacular rise of the South Korean economy in the past half century, also known as 'Miracle on the Han River,' has been duly highlighted as one of the most successful cases of economic...

The Challenge of Innovation and Technology for Korea as a Newly Advanced Economy Revisited -- Moving to the innovation frontier: Lessons from the OECD Review of Korean Innovation Policy -- Korea’s New Techno-Scientific Strategy: Realigning State, Market and Society to Move beyond Technological...

Different starting conditions and decision-making mechanisms of European and East Asian economic integration are identified. They have led to different paths of integration. The EU process had a major impact on political stability in Europe; it has increased economic stability, at the expense of...