Towards a Knowledge-based Economy: East Asia's Changing Industrial Geography

✍ Scribed by Seiichi Masuyama (editor); Donna Vandenbrink (editor)

• Publisher: ISEAS Publishing
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 337
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The evolution of the information and communications technology (ICT) paradigm is shifting the basis for economic activity from material and labour inputs to knowledge and information inputs, spawning the knowledge-based economy. In East Asia, it is evident that the emergence of the knowledge-based economy is disrupting the flying geese pattern of development and creating a new industrial geography. This book gives a picture of the shifting industrial geography in the region based on accounts of the status of the knowledge-based economy in ten individual East Asian economies. For some economies the increased production of ICT equipment and services is the pathway to the knowledge-based economy and even to leapfrogging ahead of more advanced economies. Other economies are focused on putting in place the physical and institutional infrastructure to connect to electronic networks and avoid the digital divide. For yet others, the emergence of the knowledge-based economy is expanding their role in the region, adding the role of ICT hub.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
List of Tables
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Foreword
INTRODUCTION
1. The New Industrial Geography of East Asia under the Knowledge-based Economy
PART I. ICT Paving the Way to a Knowledge-based Economy
2. ICT in KOREA
3. Taiwan’s Transition from an Industrialising Economy to a Knowledge-based Economy
4. The Internet Revolution in China Current Situation and Future Outlook
PART II. Nurturing Network-Readiness
5. Linking Thai “Brick-and-Mortars” to the Global Network Economy
6. Information Technology and E-commerce in the Philippine Economy
7. Telecommunications and Information Technology Development in Indonesia
8. Inequality, the Digital Divide, and International Collaboration in East Asia
PART III. Regionalisation of the Internet Economy
9. The New Role of Hong Kong as a Regional Hub in an Emerging E-economy
10. Singapore: A Regional Hub in ICT
11. Impact of B2B E-commerce on Japanese Corporate Networks in East Asia