Class Assistant: Kaiyuan Lin (Victor)

Email: 105261505@nccu.edu.tw

Requirements:

Please complete course enrollment through the department office with the consent of Professor Wang Jenn-Hwan（wangjh@nccu.edu.tw）.

1, Participation: The assignments contain two parts: first, students have to submit a summary report on every week’s reading materials to the NCCU E-Learning Website one day before the class; the other is to bring the questions regarding the assigned reading materials to the class to facilitate discussion. The class assistant will show to the students how to do it in the first day of the class. If student is not able to attend the class, he or she has to report to the peofessor and let him know in advance.

2, Facilitation: This will require one of the students in the class to do the summary in each session of the three-hour class and to guide colleague students in understanding the assigned readings. This assignment (and who will do which week/s) will be discussed in the first week’s class.

3, Research paper: Students are required to submit a research paper up to 8000 words in the final week of the semester (exact date will be announced during our course works). Research topic (including a short abstract) and one page abctract should be submitted to the professor in the mid-term week. Students are required to present their draft paper in the final two weeks.

Alvin Y. So, Yin-Wah Chu, (2016). The Global Rise of China. Polity press. London, UK : Academic Press/Elsevierpp.1-85.

Block, F., Keller, M. (2008) Where Do Innovations Come From? Transformations in the U.S. National Innovation System, 1970-2006. The Information Technology & Innovation Foundation.

Chu, Y.-W. (2009). “Eclipse or reconfigured? South Korea's developmental state and challenges of the global knowledge economy.” Economy and Society, 38(2), 278-303.

Chu, Y.-W. (2009). “Eclipse or reconfigured? South Korea's developmental state and challenges of the global knowledge economy.” Economy and Society, 38(2), 278-303.

Edquist, C. (1997). 'Systems of innovation approaches - their emergence and characteristics', in C. Edquist,(ed.). Systems of Innovation: Technologies, Institutions and Organizations, London: Printer, pp.1-35. (in Edquist, V:1, 3-37)

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Ernst, D. (2005). Pathways to innovation in Asia's leading electronics-exporting countries - a framework for exploring drivers and policy implications. International Journal of Technology Management, 29(1-2), pp. 6-20.

Ernst, D., and L. Kim. 2002. Global production networks, knowledge diffusion, and local capability formation. Research Policy 31 (8-9):1417-1429.

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Gereffi, G. (1999). International trade and industrial upgrading in the apparel commodity chain. Journal of International Economics, 48, 37-70.

Humphrey, J., & H. Schmitz. (2002). How does insertion in global value chains affect upgrading industrial clusters? Regional Studies, 36, 1017-1027.

Joachim Jan Thraen (2016). Mastering Innovation in China: Insights from History on China’s Journey towards Innovation. Wiesbaden, Germany: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. DOI:10.1007/978-3-658-14556-9

Locke, Richard and Rachel Wellhausen2014 Production in Innovation Economy the challenge to Japan. Cambridge, Mass; MIT Press.

Lunvall, Why study national systems and national styles of innovation? Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, 10:4, 403-422, DOI:10.1080/09537329808524324

Malerba, F., and L. Orsenigo. (1997). 'Technological regimes and sectoral patterns of innovative activities', Industrial and Corporate Change,6(1): 83-117.

Rajiv Shah, Zhijie Gao, Harini Mittal (2015). Innovation, entrepreneurship, and the economy in the US, China, and India: historical perspectives and future trends. London, UK : Academic Press/Elsevier.

Sturgeon, T. J., and Lester, R. K., 2004, The new global supply base: new challenges for local suppliers in East Asia, in Yusuf, S., Altaf, M. A., and Nabeshima, K., editors, Global Production Networking and Technology Change in East Asia: Washington D.C., The World Bank, p. 35-87.

Wang, J. H. (2007). Divergent routes from catching up toward innovation: South Korea and Taiwan compared. The Journal of Development Studies, 43, 1084-1104.

Wang, Jenn-Hwan, & Lee, Chuan-Kai (2007). Global production networks and local institution building: the development of the information-technology industry in Suzhou, China, Environment and Planning A, 39(8), 1873-1888.