從科技追趕到創新的經濟轉型：南韓、台灣與中國
摘要
This paper sets out to analyze the divergent models pursued by South Korea, Taiwan and China in regard to technological catching up and their ongoing transition toward innovation-based economies. By adopting an institutionalist perspective, this paper analyzes how the domestic institutional arrangements of each country, they are the state, the financial system and the industrial structure in each country shape their ways of technological learning and development. It is found that South Korea's former high-debt and chaebol-dominated model favoured it to pursue a scale-based technological development, while Taiwan's former pro-stability, SME-based model tended to favour its emphasis on a state-led innovation network-based technological development. In contrast to the former two cases, China's development of the information technology has largely depended upon foreign direct investments. However, in the development process, the foreign sector has been isolated from the domestic firms, while the domestic industrial sectors have also failed to develop organic linkages among themselves to facilitate technological learning and generate innovation. As a result, China's institutional arrangement has not created a favorable environment for its technologies to further develop toward innovation. This paper also shows that, due to the characteristics of technological trajectory, each model tends to favor some but not all technologies to develop in its territory.