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Upgrading Technological Capabilities of Small and Medium Size Enterprises: Public and Private Support in the Japanese and Korean Auto Parts Industries

In: The Institutional Foundations of East Asian Economic Development

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  • Motoshige Itoh

    (University of Tokyo)

  • Shujiro Urata

    (Waseda University)

  • Jong-Wha Lee

    (Korea University)

Abstract

Small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) have been the target of renewed interest in discussions on economic growth in recent years. In the 1960s and 1970s economists thought of SMEs as a backward sector employing unskilled labour. These views and attitudes toward SMEs changed in the 1980s. Economists, realizing the important role of SMEs as suppliers of parts and components to final assemblers and recognizing the creativity and flexibility of SMEs, began to look at SMEs as a sector that plays an important and constructive role in promoting economic growth. Indeed, upgrading the technological capabilities of SMEs is considered crucial for the development of competitive industries and economy.

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  • Motoshige Itoh & Shujiro Urata & Jong-Wha Lee, 1998. "Upgrading Technological Capabilities of Small and Medium Size Enterprises: Public and Private Support in the Japanese and Korean Auto Parts Industries," International Economic Association Series, in: Yujiro Hayami & Masahiko Aoki (ed.), The Institutional Foundations of East Asian Economic Development, chapter 11, pages 318-354, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:intecp:978-1-349-26928-0_11
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-26928-0_11
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    Cited by:

    1. Shimada, Go, 2013. "The Economic Implications Of Comprehensive Approach To Learning On Industrial Development (Policy And Managerial Capability Learning):," Working Papers 1001, JICA Research Institute.
    2. Hodgkinson, A., 2000. "The Industrialisation Process of Asian Small and Medium Firms," Economics Working Papers wp00-10, School of Economics, University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia.

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