Deadline Call for Papers - The Political Economy of Democracy and Dictatorship
Tagung 01.08.2016, 00:00 Uhr, Münster, ,
The International Conference "The Political Economy of Democracy and Dictatorship" is co-organized by Prof. Yuan Li, IN-EAST. Date: February 22–24, 2017 – Venue: University of Münster. For more information please download the Call for Papers, see link below.
Start-up Ecosystems in East Asia: How do they differ from the West?
Vortrag von Martin Hemmert
Vortrag 17.08.2016, 11:00 Uhr - 12:30 Uhr, IN-EAST School of Advanced Studies, SG 183, Geibelstraße 41, Campus Duisburg
We study four major high-tech start-up ecosystems in East Asia: Tokyo, Seoul, Suzhou and Chongqing. Our case studies of these start-up ecosystems reveal that they differ in various important aspects from their Western counterparts. They are located within very large urban agglomerations. Consequently, start-up firms are co-located with many leading domestic and international firms, and research institutions. However, the networks with these partners tend to be relatively weak and segregated. Government support is strong and results in broad financial assistance for start-ups. We also find differences in the growth and internationalization of the four East Asian start-up ecosystems which can be related to features of the national economies they are located in. Overall, our findings suggest that studies of start-up ecosystems need to consider their regional institutional and cultural context, as there are strong differences between Western and East Asian countries.
Professor Liu-Farrer is a leading scholar of migration studies, and is currently co-editing the Routledge Handbook of Asian Migrations (with Brenda Yeoh). Her research interests in addition to international migration include social stratification and inequality, globalization and international education. Her recent publications include: 2016: Migration as Class-based Consumption: The Emigration of the Rich in Contemporary China,” China Quarterly and 2011: Labor Migration from China to Japan: International Students, Transnational Migrants, Routledge Press.
Professor Farrer is an ethnographer and leading scholar of urban life in Shanghai and Tokyo. His research interests include global cuisines, night life, migration and urban sexual cultures. Recent publications include: (with Andrew Field) 2015: Shanghai Nightscapes: A Nocturnal Biography of a Global City, Univ. of Chicago Press; (edited) 2015: Globalization and Asian Cuisines: Transnational Networks and Contact Zones, Palgrave Press.
The speech reviews the evolution of development thinking and the development performance in developing countries, especially in China, since the end of World War II and proposes the new structural economics (NSE) to replace structuralism and neoliberalism as the third edition of development economics. The NSE highlights that economic development is a process of technological innovation and industrial upgrading, which increases labor productivity, and of improvement and adaption in hard and soft infrastructure, which reduces transaction costs. The NSE argues for a developing country to have an efficient market and an enabling state to facilitate industrial upgrading and structural transformation according to a country’s comparative advantages and to tap into the potential of advantage of backwardness to achieve inclusive and dynamic growth and transformation.
