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Industrial Technology Development in Malaysia »

Authors: Jomo K.S. (Editor), Rajah Rasiah (Editor), Greg Felker
ISBN-13: 9780415197663, ISBN-10: 041519766X
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: March 1999
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Jomo K.S.

Book Synopsis

This book, and its companion, Technology, Competitiveness and the State, examine and evaluate Malaysian industrialization in terms of its experience of and prospects for industrial technology development. The focus is on the development of Malaysia's technological-industrial base from a sector and firm-specific perspective, including the role of foreign multinationals in this process. Industrial Technology Development in Malaysia, 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.

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1	Introduction	1
2	Foreign firms and national technological upgrading: the electronics industry in Malaysia	21
3	Managing innovation in Malaysia: comparing Japanese and Malaysian companies	38
4	Understanding innovation in electronics in Malaysia	76
5	Technology utilization level and choice: the electronics and electrical sector in Penang, Malaysia	107
6	The semiconductor industry in Malaysia	125
7	Firms, politics and political economy: patterns of subsidiary-parent linkages and technological capability-building in electronics TNC subsidiaries in Malaysia	150
8	Technology transfer from Japanese consumer electronic firms via buyer-supplier relations	191
9	Government-business co-ordination and the development of Eng Hardware	231
10	Technology capacity building in the Malaysian automotive industry	247
11	Promoting industrial and technological development under contrasting industrial policies: the automobile industries in Malaysia and Thailand	274
12	Trust and the dynamics of Japanese joint ventures in Malaysia	301
13	Rents, technological innovation and firm competitiveness in a Bumiputera Malaysian firm	329
14	Malaysia's palm oil refining industry: policy, growth, technical change and competitiveness	360
	Index	396