Asia's New Development: The Rise of the networked techno-national state

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Dr. Kathryn Ibata-Arens, a professor of Political Science and director of the Global Asian Studies Program at DePaul University, will give a talk entitled "Asia's New Developmentalism: The Rise of the Networked Techno-National State" for the Department of East Asian Studies.

Asia is at the center of the fast-growing biomedical industry: biopharmaceuticals, genomics and stem cell therapies, and medical devices. What explains the rapid rise of such Asian countries as China, India, Japan, and Singapore in the biomedical space?

Ibata-Arens integrates global and national data with original fieldwork to present a conceptual framework that considers how national governments have managed key factors, like innovative capacity, government policy, and firm-level strategies. The result is a view of Asia's new Developmentalism—and a "networked" national strategy never before seen.

Ibata-Arens is the author of Beyond Technonationalism: Biomedical Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Asia (Stanford University Press, 2019).