While the role of public sector for innovation has been downplayed in the dominant, market-centered view, advanced economies are facing challenges to develop novel approaches to innovation policies. Reasons behind this include the changing focus of innovation and the catch-up by the latecomer...

This book aims to shed light on the potentially innovative ICT (information and communication technology) architectures from an East Asian regional perspective. The business environment brought about by the development of ICT intensified global competition and caused dramatic changes in the...

The purpose of this paper is to understand how industry organization evolves under conditions of a growing market. Since Adam Smith the traditional argument has claimed that as a market grows, a vertically disintegrated industry organization evolves, and that this enhances productivity. However,...