Industrial Technology Development in Malaysia
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This book, and its companion, Technology, Competitiveness and the State, examine and evaluate Malaysian industrialization in terms of its experience of and prospects for industrial technology development. The focus is on the development of Malaysia's technological-industrial base from a sector and firm-specific perspective, including the role of foreign multinationals in this process. Industrial Technology Development in Malaysia, provides a valuable analysis of the technological development of a Newly Industrializing Country and reflects on whether existing development strategies can be maintained in the wake of the financial crises sweeping the East Asian economies.
List of figuresList of tablesList of contributors1Introduction12Foreign firms and national technological upgrading: the electronics industry in Malaysia213Managing innovation in Malaysia: comparing Japanese and Malaysian companies384Understanding innovation in electronics in Malaysia765Technology utilization level and choice: the electronics and electrical sector in Penang, Malaysia1076The semiconductor industry in Malaysia1257Firms, politics and political economy: patterns of subsidiary-parent linkages and technological capability-building in electronics TNC subsidiaries in Malaysia1508Technology transfer from Japanese consumer electronic firms via buyer-supplier relations1919Government-business co-ordination and the development of Eng Hardware23110Technology capacity building in the Malaysian automotive industry24711Promoting industrial and technological development under contrasting industrial policies: the automobile industries in Malaysia and Thailand27412Trust and the dynamics of Japanese joint ventures in Malaysia30113Rents, technological innovation and firm competitiveness in a Bumiputera Malaysian firm32914Malaysia's palm oil refining industry: policy, growth, technical change and competitiveness360Index396
