Promoting downstream processing: resource nationalism or industrial policy?

Industrial Policy: Growth Elixir or Poison?

The debate about industrial policy occasioned by the East Asian financial crisis is the latest chapter in an ongoing discussion about the effectiveness of selective government intervention in fostering rapid industrial growth. The crisis that began in the Republic of Korea in 1997 and the weak growth in Japan over much of the 1990s have prompted a reexamination of the effectiveness of the gover...

Nationalism, Internationalism and Chinese Foreign Policy

This article examines the role of nationalism in shaping Chinese foreign policy in the history of contemporary China over the last 100 years. Nationalism is used here as an analytical term, rather than in the usual popular pejorative sense. By tracing the various expressions of contemporary Chinese nationalism, this article argues that nationalism is one of the key enduring driving forces which...

Industrial Policy

Re-design of Downstream Processing Techniques for Nanoparticulate Bioproducts

There has been much interest generated in the recovery of nanoparticulate (nanoparticle) bioproducts(Second generation of biotechnological products) such as plasmid DNA and viruses as putative gene therapyvectors, macromolecular assemblies as drug delivery vehicles and virus-like particles as vaccine components.Such product must be manufactured in advanced stages of purity, ma...

From Nationalism to Pragmatism: IT Policy in China

Since 1978 China has been transforming its centrally-planned socialist economy into a more mixed market system. China has also largely abandoned its nationalist technology strategy aimed at achieving self-reliance in favor of a more pragmatic strategy of importing advanced technologies and directing domestic R&D toward commercial purposes. This change has been evident in China's policies toward...