Technology, Competitiveness and the State Malaysia's Industrial Technology Policies

This volume, and its companion, Industrial Technology Development in Malaysia , examine and evaluate Malaysian industrialization in terms of its experience of and prospects for industrial technology development. The focus is on role played by state-sponsored innovation in the process economic development and in the context of national development strategies. Technology, Competitiveness and the State , provides a valuable analysis of the technological development of a Newly Industrializing Country and reflects on whether existing development strategies can be maintained in the wake of the financial crises sweeping the East Asian economies.Jomo Kwame Sundaram is the author of 'Technology, Competitiveness and the State Malaysia's Industrial Technology Policies', published 1999 under ISBN 9780415197656 and ISBN 0415197651.