This paper examines the current Japanese film industry, where it is well known that certain directors and production teams repeatedly work together to produce a series of films that often show high economic and artistic performance. Firstly, through historical examination, we describe how these...

This paper focuses on the roles of regional entrepreneurship, especially university researchers and the effectiveness of their legitimization in the process of establishing academic spin-off ventures for the commercialisation of new technologies. Using regional university-originated spin-off...

We look at Korea's industrialization strategy and experience from the 1960s to the mid-1990s. Three elements of the Korean industrial development and structural change are discussed: 1) its outward orientation and export push, 2) its climb up the ladder of comparative advantage, and 3) its...

This paper suggests that inequality in landownership is a non-financial hurdle for human capital accumulation. It is the first to present evidence that inequality in landownership had an adverse effect on the level of public education in the Korean colonial period. Using a fixed effects model,...