"Through a rigorous examination of ''China's rise'', Lee addresses an important question - Did China catch up? Or more specifically, can growth be automatically translated to catching up with the advanced industrialised countries or has it only allowed limited progress (if any) to be made?' To...

Cover ; Half Title ; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. Basic Concepts; 2. The Nineteenth Century's Legacy: Invention and Discovery to 1910; 3. Innovation and Prosperity: 1900-1930; 4. Technology and Depression; 5. Materials: Enablers in the Twentieth Century; 6....

chapter 1 Introduction and summary of the book -- chapter 2 The economic growth record in Japan -- chapter 3 The challenges to Japanese economic growth -- chapter 4 The IT/E-business revolution and globalization: Implications of the New Economy for Japan -- chapter 5 IT and productivity growth:...

1. Voice, choice and diversity through creative industries : towards a new development agenda / Diana Barrowclough and Zeljka Kozul-Wright -- 2. Opportunities presented and threats posed by the digital production/distribution revolution / Roger Wallis -- 3. Financing creative industries in...