Description:
Joseph Wong examines the emerging biotechnology sector in Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan.
Brief description: 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.
Review Quotes:
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"