Reviews

"The author presents a coherent analytical framework to explain the success of these states in establishing a technologically sophisticated industry within a relatively short span of less than two decades ... This book is a very significant contribution to our understanding of the different strategies and options available to developing regions in supporting the growth of high technology based industries and making them competitive globally. The ‘Competitive Flexibility’ model developed by the author tries to capture the essential elements of these strategies and shows that increasing globalization offers tremendous opportunities for developing regions to pursue appropriate development strategies to become globally competitive in a technologically sophisticated field." – Prof. Alice H. Amsden, Barton L. Weller Professor of Political Economy, MIT