SSJ Forum Colleagues,



I am pleased to announce that my new book, Beyond Technonationalism: Biomedical Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Asia <https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=24171> (https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=24171), is available from Stanford University Press. Here is an author interview (14 Aug 2019) with my series editor, Martin Kenney.



https://stanfordpress.typepad.com/blog/2019/08/kathryn-c-ibata-arens-and-martin-kenney-words-words-words-martin-kenney-what-made-you-write-this-book-kat.html



Book description appended below.



Sincerely,

Dr. Ibata-Arens, Vincent de Paul Professor

Department of Political Science, DePaul University


New Book on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Asia, Stanford University Press <https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=24171>

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The biomedical industry, which includes biopharmaceuticals, genomics and stem cell therapies, and medical devices, is among the fastest growing worldwide. While it has been an economic development target of many national governments, Asia is currently on track to reach the epicenter of this growth. What accounts for the rapid and sustained economic growth of biomedicals in Asia?


To answer this question, Kathryn Ibata-Arens integrates global and national data with original fieldwork to present a conceptual framework that considers how national governments have managed key factors, like innovative capacity, government policy, and firm-level strategies. Taking China, India, Japan, and Singapore in turn, she compares each country's underlying competitive advantages. What emerges is an argument that countries pursuing networked technonationalism (NTN) effectively upgrade their capacity for innovation and encourage entrepreneurial activity in targeted industries. In contrast to countries that engage in classic technonationalism--like Japan's developmental state approach--networked technonationalists are global minded to outside markets, while remaining nationalistic within the domestic economy.


By bringing together aggregate data at the global and national level with original fieldwork and drawing on rich cases, Ibata-Arens telegraphs implications for innovation policy and entrepreneurship strategy in Asia--and beyond.



About the author


Kathryn C. Ibata-Arens is Vincent de Paul Professor of Political Science and Director of the Global Asian Studies Program at DePaul University. She is the author of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Japan: Politics, Organizations, and High Technology Firms.