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What made it possible for Asian countries to have such a turn-around in technology? A body of literature seeks to answer this question by examining cultural aspects (e.g., Asian values), innovation systems (e.g., government agencies and policies), geopolitical situations (e.g., the Cold War context), or charismatic leadership in business and policymaking areas (e.g., the founders of Sony and Samsung). Yet no one has taken a serious look into the nature of the technology gap per se. What is the technology gap? What exactly do we mean by “bridging” this gap? Is there a universal yardstick to measure and rank the national capacity for technological productivity? I think that the term ‘gap’ is a useful yet problematic metaphor, for a gap connotes a space or distance between two objects. Is the technology gap something that can be filled with more stuff or be connected with a bridge?
Contents
Preface Youngsoo Bae i
Introduction Buhm Soon Park ix
Chapter 1
Bridging the Technology Gap in Japan: Technology, Culture and Identity in the Late 19th to the 21st Century
Morris Low 1
Chapter 2
Accelerating Transformation: High Technology, Nationalism, and Developmental Authoritarianism in Indonesia, 1966-1998 Sulfikar Amir 33
Chapter 3
Development in Science and Technology of South Korea During the Cold War: Focusing on the US Policy toward South Korea
Tae Gyun Park 63
Chapter 4
The Historical Development of Technological Capabilities in Korean Steel Industry: The Case of Posco
Sungsoo Song 95
Chapter 5
Technology Gap, Research Institutes, and the Contract Research System: The Role of Government-Funded Research Institutes in Korea Manyong Moon 125
Chapter 6
Technonationalism, Technology Gaps, and the Nuclear Bureaucracy in Korea, 1955-1973
Buhm Soon Park 153
Chapter 7
The “Koreanization” of Nuclear Power Technology: The Case of a Joint Design
Byung-Koo Kim 199
Index 221
About Authors 224 |
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