TY - JOUR
T1 - US-Asia interdependencies
T2 - A study of business and knowledge links
AU - Jongsthapongpanth, Annitra
AU - Bagchi-Sen, Sharmistha
N1 - Funding Information:
Table 5 shows the top three foreign suppliers of technology products to the United States. Electronics, information and communications, and optodectrics have been largely contributed by Asian economies. Although, Canada, the UK, France, and Japan have long been major suppliers of various high technology products, many come from developing Asian economies, especially Malaysia, South Korea, and Singapore (Wong, 1995). By the 1990s, Asian countries were active in communications technology, semiconductor manufacturing processes, and electronics equipments. The data from 1999 show that Taiwan’s inventors have continued to broaden their technology portfolio, emphasizing testing and measuring devices, audio systems, advanced materials, optics, and aeronautics (National Science Foundation, 2002). The trend is supported by US patenting activity from South Korea and Taiwan. In other Asian countries, technology transfer through licensing is relatively lower than that in the NIEs (Wong, 2000). The next section examines trends in knowledge links. A brief discussion of Asian immigration to the United States is needed to draw attention to
PY - 2007/5
Y1 - 2007/5
N2 - In the past two decades, US-Asia linkages have improved tremendously with the gradual transformation of some Asian countries as sources of high skilled as well as low cost labor. Extensive research on US-Japan relationships have been undertaken in the 1980s and the 1990s with a progression of research toward the four tigers and now China. South and South East Asian economies are usually neglected in academic research on Asia. This paper provides a comprehensive examination of business links (trade, foreign direct investment, licensing, and patents) and knowledge links (labor flow, publications and citations) within the context of technology transfer and technology cooperation between the two regions. The data show that the United States is increasingly dependent on imports from Asia while Asian nations are dependent on US FDI and technology licenses. For knowledge links, the United States continues to attract Asian scientists and engineers and, over the past ten years, interregional collaborations have strengthened. Economic linkages in the past 30 years are now complemented by knowledge links, which is creating transnational knowledge networks and will eventually facilitate further development of the science and technology workforce and innovation in Asian nations.
AB - In the past two decades, US-Asia linkages have improved tremendously with the gradual transformation of some Asian countries as sources of high skilled as well as low cost labor. Extensive research on US-Japan relationships have been undertaken in the 1980s and the 1990s with a progression of research toward the four tigers and now China. South and South East Asian economies are usually neglected in academic research on Asia. This paper provides a comprehensive examination of business links (trade, foreign direct investment, licensing, and patents) and knowledge links (labor flow, publications and citations) within the context of technology transfer and technology cooperation between the two regions. The data show that the United States is increasingly dependent on imports from Asia while Asian nations are dependent on US FDI and technology licenses. For knowledge links, the United States continues to attract Asian scientists and engineers and, over the past ten years, interregional collaborations have strengthened. Economic linkages in the past 30 years are now complemented by knowledge links, which is creating transnational knowledge networks and will eventually facilitate further development of the science and technology workforce and innovation in Asian nations.
KW - Asia
KW - Business linkages
KW - Knowledge connections
KW - US
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U2 - 10.1080/13547860701252546
DO - 10.1080/13547860701252546
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:34047203546
SN - 1354-7860
VL - 12
SP - 215
EP - 249
JO - Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy
JF - Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy
IS - 2
ER -