Introduction: Governance and coordination modes in driving innovation and learning

Abstract

This work presents a theoretical assessment of technological and economic catch up theories. Consistent with evolutionary postulations of technology and technical change, which are sector- and industry-specific, embedded by locational institutions and organizations, and integrated in global networks, non-linear in its emergence and movement, and subsumed in the nature of micro, meso and macro interactions, it provides the anchor for the elucidation of the East Asian experiences discussed in this volume.

Keywords:

• East Asia
• evolutionary theory
• innovation
• institutions
• learning

Notes

1. See Nelson and Pack (2001), for incisive critiques of the total factor productivity approach to understanding technical change.