Innovation Policy and the Limits of Laissez-faire

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction

   • Douglas B. Fuller

   Pages 1-7

3. University-Industry Collaboration and Technology Transfer in Hong Kong and Knowledge-based Economic Growth

   • David C. Mowery

   Pages 8-38

4. Hong Kong’s Intellectual Property Rights Regime and Innovation Policy

   • Poh-Kam Wong

   Pages 39-68

5. Human Resources: Hong Kong’s Challenges and Opportunities

   • David M. Hart, Fangmeng Tian

   Pages 69-96

6. Workforce Development in Hong Kong

   • Vivek Wadhwa

   Pages 97-113

7. On Reform of Hong Kong’s Public Research Funding System

   • Chintay Shih, Shin-Horng Chen

   Pages 114-144

8. Hong Kong’s Venture Capital System and the Commercialization of New Technology

   • Kevin Au, Steven White

   Pages 145-180

9. Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta: Science and Technology Cooperation

   • Adam Segal

   Pages 181-197

10. Manufacturing for a Post-Manufacturing City

    • Eric Thun

    Pages 198-220

11. Biotechnology in Hong Kong: Prospects and Challenges

    • Joseph Wong

    Pages 221-241

12. Government Neglect and the Decline of Hong Kong’s Integrated Circuit Design Industry

    • Douglas B. Fuller

    Pages 242-266

13. Hong Kong’s New Creative Industries: The Example of the Video Games Sector

    • F. Ted Tschang

    Pages 267-300

14. Environmental Technology: Hong Kong’s Innovation System

    • Atsushi Sunami

    Pages 301-323

15. Back Matter

    Pages 324-326

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Hong Kong's laissez-faire tradition has crippled attempts to transform it into a more knowledge-intensive economy and this is a lesson with wide applicability. Many emerging economies face innovation bottlenecks, but even some more advanced economies face similar constraints and may benefit from the lessons of its negative example.

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• economic growth
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• technology
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DOUGLAS B FULLER is Lecturer of International Business and Comparative Management, Kings College London, UK. His research centres on the technology development strategies of firms in emerging economies with a regional focus on developing Asia. He did degrees in history (BA) at Swarthmore College and East Asian Studies (MA) at UC Berkeley before completing a PhD in Political Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After taking his degree, he served as post-Doctoral Fellow at Stanford University's Stanford Project on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Subsequently, he taught at the School of International Service in Washington DC and in the Department of Management of Chinese University of Hong Kong. He arrived at Kings in January 2008.

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