A Perspective on Entrepreneurship, Intellectual Property Creation, Enterprise Development and Competitiveness in Asean

R esearch and development (R&D) and the accelerating progress in science and technology have been the backbone of the global information revolution, dated as beginning in 1969 with the commercial production of a computer on a silicon chip. All these have, in turn, greatly facilitated the emergence of knowledge-based economies (KBEs), inventive entrepreneurs and technology-driven SMEs. In the process, radical ways and means have also been devised and applied to industrial organization and value creation with significant success both within and across geographical, cultural and political divides.