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| Post-Industrial East Asian Cities: Innovation for Growth | 
 enlarge | Authors: Shahid Yusuf, Kaoru Nabeshima
Publisher: Stanford Economics and Finance
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 275400
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 368
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 1
ISBN: 0804756732
Dewey Decimal Number: 307.76095
EAN: 9780804756730
ASIN: 0804756732
Publication Date: September 8, 2006
Release Date: September 8, 2006
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Product Description
Throughout East Asia, the growth process and its sources are changing in a number of important respects, especially for middle- and high-income economies. Growth is increasingly coming from the strength of innovative activities in these economies rather than from factor accumulation as in the past. Such innovative activities?especially in producer services and the creative industries?are concentrated in high-tech clusters in globally linked cities.
Drawing on a wide range of literature and on interviews with firms, this book explores these issues with a focus on six East Asian cities: Bangkok, Beijing, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, and Tokyo. It suggests how policies and institutions can induce and furnish an urban environment that supports innovative activities. A valuable resource for researchers, urban planners, urban geographers, and policy makers interested in East Asia, Post-Industrial East Asian Cities presents the latest findings on creative industries in East Asia and their effect on economic growth.
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be diverse and highly skilled June 11, 2007
East Asia has developed tremendously in 50 years. Giving rise to the megacities considered here. Tokyo, Singapore, Beijing, Shanghai, Seoul and Bangkok. The book considers these to be global cities. Deeply tied into the rest of the world via communications and transport networks. With international trade often having aided their rise.
But the real questions raised by the book concern the future of these Asian cities. How will their economies continue to grow? The word postindustrial is liberally tossed around. What it means here is that the mega-industrial projects that might have helped the cities get where they are today, are not necessarily the way to go forward. Instead, the cities should encourage innovation and the development of a highly educated workforce. Skills need to be upgraded, outside the manufacturing context. To this ends, major universities located in the cities can be a vital enabler. Some cities, like Shanghai, with 839 research institutes, and Beijing, with 267, are well positioned in this aspect.
Another theme is that the cities should be heterogenous. In how their populations are made up. A cultural and ethnic diversity could aid in a positive social dynamism.
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