Asian Development Outlook 2020 Background Papers

  Asian Development Outlook 2020: What Drives Innovation in Asia?

The Asian Development Outlook 2020 theme chapter is on “What drives innovation in Asia?” The background papers and notes for the theme chapter are made available here to communicate the results of the underlying research work with the least possible delay. These manuscripts therefore have not been prepared in accordance with the procedures appropriate to formally-edited texts.

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Background Papers

•    Entrepreneurship as a Driver of Innovation in the Digital Age
  by Erkko Autio, Kun Fu, and Jonathan Levie
•    Urban Agglomeration and Firm Innovation: Evidence from Asia
  by Liming Chen, Rana Hasan, and Yi Jiang
•    Does One Size Fit All? Financial Architecture and Innovation in the 21st Century
  by Zhaojun Huang and Xuan Tian
•    Human Capital and Innovation at the Firm-Level
  by Sameer Khatiwada and Rosa Mia Arao
•    Landscape of Innovation in Developing Asia: Firm-level Perspective
  by Sameer Khatiwada and Rosa Mia Arao
•   Diverse Forms of Intellectual Property Rights, Innovations, and Firm Performance at Different Stages of Development: Findings from the Firm-Level Study in the Republic of Korea, 1970s–2010s
  by Keun Lee, Raeyoon Kang, and Donghyun Park
•   The Effects of the Innofund Program on Technology-Based SMEs’ Performance: Evidence from Zhongguancun National Innovation Demonstration Zone (ZNID)
  by Jizhen Li, Chengcheng Liu, and Elisabetta Gentile
•   Is City Innovation Accumulative?
  by Fushu Luan, Yang Chen, Ming He, and Donghyun Park
•   Education for Innovation: Sorting Fact from Fiction
  by Kirsty Newman, Elisabetta Gentile, and Nina Ashley Dela Cruz
•   Innovation Policy in Asia
  by Taeyoung Park and Junyun Kim
•   Trends and Determinants of Innovation in Asia-Pacific and Latin America and the Caribbean
  by Irfan Qureshi, Donghyun Park, Gustavo Atilio Crespi, and Jose Miguel Benavente

Background Notes

•    Chaebols and Firm Dynamics in the Republic of Korea
  by Philippe Aghion, Sergei Guriev, and Kangchul Jo
•    Catch up Innovation: A Stratified Approach to Support Technology Upgrading of Firms in Indonesia
  by Emma Allen, Priasto Aji, and Yurendra Basnett
•    Large and Small Firm Roles in Innovation
  by Erkko Autio
•    Build Digital Societies
  by Calum Cameron
•    Financing for Innovation
  by Bihong Huang
•    Bottom of the Pyramid Innovation in Asia
  by Jungsuk Kim and Cynthia Castillejos-Petalcorin
•    The Role of Government Research and Development in Fostering Innovation in Asia
  by Jungsuk Kim and Cynthia Castillejos-Petalcorin
•    e-Mobility - a Promising Option for Reducing GHG in Transport Sector
  by Ki-Joon Kim
•   Incubating Future Innovators and Entrepreneurs
  by Rajesh Nair and Jose Enrique Corpus
•    Competition Policy and Innovation
  by Irfan Qureshi
•    Frontier vs. Catch-up Innovation
  by Irfan Qureshi
•    Vertical Innovation Industry Development to Enable Leapfrogging, Superior Competitiveness and Innovation
  by René Rohrbeck, Olga Kokshagina, and Susann Roth
•    Accelerating Innovation through Public Sector Innovation Labs and Vertical Industry Development Models
  by Susann Roth, Yazeen Bawa Mohamed Asmi, and Arndt Husar
•    Viet Nam’s Digital Transformation is Driven by Policies Fostering Innovation and Start-ups
  by Tomi Särkioja
•    Innovation in Emerging Europe
  by Helena Schweiger and Alexander Stepanov
•    Innovation in the Financial Sector
  by Shu Tian
•    e-Government and the Efficiency of Public Service
  by Seok Yong Yoon
•    Solving the Energy Trilemma through Innovation
  by Yongping Zhai and Yoonah Lee