Hk. Tang et Kt. Yeo, TECHNOLOGY, ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND NATIONAL-DEVELOPMENT - LESSONS FROM SINGAPORE, International journal of technology management, 10(7-8), 1995, pp. 797-814
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29
Categorie Soggetti
Management,Engineering,"Operatione Research & Management Science
This paper gives an up-to-date account of Singapore's major technoecon
omic development. From Singapore's experience a general national devel
opment model based on government entrepreneurship and technological de
velopment is constructed. In this model foreign multinational corporat
ions continue to be an integral driving force in economic growth and a
conduit for technology transfer, even when a nation enters into an in
novation-driven development phase. The paper also outlines the challen
ges Singapore faces now that the economies of Asia's and the world's t
wo most populous countries, China and India, open up. In order for Sin
gapore to become a developed nation there is a need for local 'technop
reneurship' to broaden its scope. Furthermore the country needs to mai
ntain an orderly shift to technologically advanced activities while lo
w-end operations are relocating to lower-cost countries.