Beyond Technonationalism

Biomedical Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Asia

Kathryn C. Ibata-Arens

• Publisher: Stanford Business Books
• Year: 2019
• ISBN:
  9781503608757
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology & Healthcare Industry
• Index: Business

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• 1. Networked Technonationalism in the Biomedical Industry: Mapping the Global Innovation and Market Context
• 2. Knowledge and Network Typology: Comparing National Innovation Systems and Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
• 3. Classic Technonationalism in Japan: Beyond the “Miracle” and “Lost” Decades
• 4. New Networked Technonationalism in China: Diaspora and “Mass” Entrepreneurship
• 5. From Closed to Open in India: Import Substitution, IITs, and Liberalization
• 6. Born Global in Singapore: Living the Janus Paradox
• 7. Conclusion: Variations in Technonationalism Compared
• Acronyms
• Notes
• References
• Index