Dilip Soman

Joseph Wong

Janice Gross Stein

Towards an Inclusive Innovation Agenda

Innovating for the Global South

After World War II, several late-developing countries registered astonishingly high growth rates under strong state direction, making use of smart investment strategies, turnkey factories, and reverse-engineering, and taking advantage of the postwar global economic boom. Among these economic miracles were postwar Japan and, in the 1960s and 1970s, the so-called Asian Tigers-Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan-whose experiences epitomized the analytic category of the "developmental state." In Betting on Biotech, Joseph Wong examines the emerging biotechnology sector in each of these three industrial dynamos. They have invested billions of dollars in biotech industries since the 1990s, but commercial blockbusters and commensurate profits have not followed. Industrial upgrading at the cutting edge of technological innovation is vastly different from the dynamics of earlier practices in established industries. The profound uncertainties of life-science-based industries such as biotech have forced these nations to confront a new logic of industry development, one in which past strategies of picking and making winners have given way to a new strategy of throwing resources at what remain very long shots. Betting on Biotech illuminates a new political economy of industrial technology innovation in places where one would reasonably expect tremendous potential-yet where billion-dollar bets in biotech continue to teeter on the brink of spectacular failure.

Innovation and the Limits of Asia's Developmental State

Betting on Biotech

Dan Slater

Why some of Asia’s authoritarian regimes have democratized as they have grown richer—and why others haven’t Over the past century, Asia has been transformed by rapid economic growth, industrialization, and urbanization—a spectacular record of development that has turned one of the world’s poorest regions into one of its richest. Yet Asia’s record of democratization has been much more uneven, despite the global correlation between development and democracy. Why have some Asian countries become more democratic as they have grown richer, while others—most notably China—haven’t? In From Development to Democracy, Dan Slater and Joseph Wong offer a sweeping and original answer to this crucial question. Slater and Wong demonstrate that Asia defies the conventional expectation that authoritarian regimes concede democratization only as a last resort, during times of weakness. Instead, Asian dictators have pursued democratic reforms as a proactive strategy to revitalize their power from a position of strength. Of central importance is whether authoritarians are confident of victory and stability. In Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan these factors fostered democracy through strength, while democratic experiments in Indonesia, Thailand, and Myanmar were less successful and more reversible. At the same time, resistance to democratic reforms has proven intractable in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, China, Vietnam, and Cambodia. Reconsidering China’s 1989 crackdown, Slater and Wong argue that it was the action of a regime too weak to concede, not too strong to fail, and they explain why China can allow democracy without inviting instability. The result is a comprehensive regional history that offers important new insights about when and how democratic transitions happen—and what the future of Asia might be.

The Transformations of Modern Asia

From Development to Democracy

Kang-i Sun Chang

康正果

范銘如

孫康宜

朱敬一

于若蓉

黃紀

王曉珏

王德威（David Der-wei Wang）

鍾玲

廖炳惠（Ping-hui Liao）

柯慶明

顏娟英

馬嘉蘭（Fran Martin）

十幾位來自國內外著名大學、研究機構的學者，針對臺灣的歷史文化脈絡、政經發展、家庭價值、藝術、音樂與文學，海峽兩岸之對照，乃至臺大精神、選舉行為、知識分子、科技規模及其競爭力問題，就本土經驗參證全球觀點，提出鞭辟入裡的分析。每篇論文均顯現其跨科際跨地區研究之特色；本書是臺灣研究的新里程碑，讓臺灣與世界有內容更充實、視野具足分量的對話。

臺灣及其脈絡

Thomas Matus

Carrying Forward the Contemplative and Prophetic Vision of Bede Griffiths

The Continuing Quest

Joseph Wong

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