Institutions and Technological Intensities: Foreign and Local Automotive and Electronics Component Firms in East and Southeast Asia

Rajah Rasiah
Prof. of Technology and Innovation Policy
University of Malaya
Dist. Honorary Professional Fellow
Maastricht Economic and Social Research & Training Centre
Innovation and Technology (MERIT)

This lecture examined the learning potential of local firms from the operations of direct foreign investment by differentiating technology into human resources (HR), process technology (PT), and R&D (RD), and by the strength of embedding institutional and systematic (IS) support at host sites using a sample of automotive and electronic component firms in China, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Taiwan.