Global Taiwan: Building Competitive Strengths In A New International Economy (East Gate Books) [Hardcover]

Suzanne Berger (Editor), Richard K. Lester (Editor)

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• Hardcover: 344 pages
• Publisher: M E Sharpe Inc (May 30, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0765616165
• ISBN-13: 978-0765616166
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,022,375 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Richard K. Lester is Japan Steel Industry Professor and Head of the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering (NSE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he is also the founding director of the MIT Industrial Performance Center (IPC). His teaching and research focus on innovation management and policy, with an emphasis on the energy and manufacturing sectors. He has led large-scale studies of national and regional competitiveness and innovation performance in North America, Europe, and Asia. He has also written extensively on the management and control of nuclear technology. In addition to his latest book, Unlocking Energy Innovation, other recent books include Innovation - The Missing Dimension (with Michael J. Piore), on the sources of creativity and innovation in advanced economies, and Making Technology Work, based on a popular MIT course on "Applications of Technology in Energy and the Environment" he co-taught for many years with his colleague John M. Deutch.

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This review is from: Global Taiwan: Building Competitive Strengths In A New International Economy (East Gate Books) (Hardcover)

Global Taiwan, edited by Suzanne Berger and Richard K. Lester, is a daunting work that nonetheless is well worth the effort required to read it. It is the first of a series of titles to be published by the MIT Industrial Performance Center. If subsequent publications are as strong as this one, academic libraries, executives of informational technology firms, and serious students of international business should preorder the series now. Moreover, anyone with a strong interest in Sino-American relations should also read it. While it is probably too much to expect that members of Congress might read it, we hope that at least one staff member in every congressional office seriously concerned with East Asian or U.S. economic policy will read it and report to the boss.

For a full review see Interface, Volume 6, Issue 4.