BETTING ON BIOTECH: INNOVATION AND THE LIMITS OF ASIA’S DEVELOPMENTAL STATE
Book ID/图书代码： 03360010B43262
English Summary/英文概要： After World War II, several late-developing countries registered astonishingly high growth rates under strong state direction, making use of smart investment strategies, turnkey factories, and reverse-engineering, and taking advantage of the postwar global economic boom. Among these economic miracles were postwar Japan and, in the 1960s and 1970s, the so-called Asian Tigers—Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan—whose experiences epitomized the analytic category of the "developmental state."
In Betting on Biotech, Joseph Wong examines the emerging biotechnology sector in each of these three industrial dynamos. They have invested billions of dollars in biotech industries since the 1990s, but commercial blockbusters and commensurate profits have not followed. Industrial upgrading at the cutting edge of technological innovation is vastly different from the dynamics of earlier practices in established industries.
The profound uncertainties of life-science-based industries such as biotech have forced these nations to confront a new logic of industry development, one in which past strategies of picking and making winners have given way to a new strategy of throwing resources at what remain very long shots. Betting on Biotech illuminates a new political economy of industrial technology innovation in places where one would reasonably expect tremendous potential—yet where billion-dollar bets in biotech continue to teeter on the brink of spectacular failure.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 二战以后，几个发展稍晚的发展中国家在强硬国家政策方向的引导下，利用小型投资政策，全包建工厂，逆向工程和战后全球经济复苏的契机，取得了卓越的发展成效。这些经济发展之奇迹国包括战后日本，以及20世纪60-70年代所谓的亚洲四小龙---新加坡、韩国和台湾---他们的经历完美的印证了分析学领域内所谓的“发展型国家”。
在《相信生物科技》一书中，约瑟夫•王对以上提及的三个经济发展体各自新兴的生物科技领域进行了探究。自20世纪90年代以来，她们都各自在生物科技领域投入了上百万美元用以建设，然而却没有获得期待中的经济急速增长和与之相称的利润收益。高新创新技术产业的升级从很大程度上不同于此前既有工业领域内的升级模式。
基于生命科学领域的行业具有极大的不确定性，例如生物科技已经迫使这些国家不得不面对一种全新的行业发展逻辑，在这一逻辑中，曾经那种选中极为成功的商业模式已让位于全新的政策，即将资源放置到更为长远的发展空间中去。《相信生物科技》将为我们引入一种新政治经济模式，即在你有理由相信可能会存在巨大潜力的领域进行技术创新---同时在美好未来前景的边缘地带晃动的，则是投注与生物科技之上的数百万美元的资金投入。（DC）
Awards/获奖情况："网巧妙的评估了亚洲四小龙中三个国家的投入状况---新加坡，韩国和台湾---从而进入三个国家的生物科学领域，看看为何这三个国家的领导人都将其归类为至关重要的未来行业。。。。。。与目前正在急速发展中的电子产业相比，发展中的生物科学领域显得更难攻克，因此要想在该领域内获得成功是既久远也无法轻易保证的。"—理查德•N•库伯，Foreign Affairs (September/October 2012)
"在这部前所未有的书籍作品中，约瑟夫•王就成功的进行快速创新式发展提出了几个最重要的问题---后信息和通讯科技会让未来变成怎样？此后他为此深入研究了几个国家想要保持发展所必须面对的几项至关重要且必不可少的任务---当他们将未来寄希望于生物科技行业时，如何应对强烈的不确定性，并管理好参照过去成功案例而萌生出的过于膨胀的期望值。《相信生物科技》不仅是政策学家同时也应该是政策制定者们的必读书目。"—丹•布雷泽尼斯，乔治亚科研所，著有《国家的创新》和《红皇后的奔跑》
"尽管韩国、台湾和新加坡都废了九牛二虎之力才将信息科技与生活科学所联系起来，但他们仍然无法选出所谓的胜者、无法管控风险、甚至还是入不敷出的。约翰•王很显然创作了一部十分重要的书籍，迫使我们不得不重新审视我们所谓的发展型国家。"—威廉 W.凯勒, 乔治亚大学
"Wong deftly evaluates the efforts of three Asian ’tigers’—Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan—to enter the biotechnology sector, seen by leaders in all three places as a vital industry of the future. . . . Compared to developing electronics, developing biotechnology is proving to be much more difficult, and their success in the field is far from assured."—Richard N. Cooper, Foreign Affairs (September/October 2012)
"In this groundbreaking book, Joseph Wong asks the most important question for successful Rapid-Innovation-Based economies—what does the post–Information and Communication Technology (ICT) future hold? In so doing he delves into the essential new tasks facing states wishing to stay ’developmental’—how to handle radical uncertainty and manage the inflated expectations their past success in ICT have created as they now bet their future on biotechnology. Betting on Biotech is a must-read for political scientists and policymakers alike."—Dan Breznitz, Georgia Institute of Technology, author of Innovation and the State and Run of the Red Queen
"Despite Herculean efforts to map success in information technology onto the life sciences sector, Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore have been unable to pick winners, manage risk, or even make ends meet. Joseph Wong has written an important book that forces revision of our view of the developmental state."—William W. Keller, University of Georgia
About the Author/作者介绍： 约瑟夫•王是一名副教授，加拿大政治科学研究中心主席，多伦多大学全球时事蒙克学院亚洲研究中心主任。他著有作品《相信生物科技：亚洲发展现状的创新处于局限性》和《健康的民主：台湾和韩国的福利政治》，以及政治学合译著作《主导党系：学会失去》。
Joseph Wong is Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Political Science and Director of the Asian Institute at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Betting on Biotech: Innovation and the Limits of Asia’s Developmental State and Healthy Democracies: Welfare Politics in Taiwan and South Korea, both from Cornell, and coeditor of Political Transitions in Dominant Party Systems: Learning to Lose.
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