ASEAN
Science, Technology and Innovation in Viet Nam, 2014 (OECD, World Bank)
Degelsegger and Blasy (eds.), 2011, Spotlight on: Science and Technology Cooperation Between Southeast Asia and Europe: Analyses and Recommendations from the SEA-EU-NET Project (European Commission)
ASEAN Plan of Action on Science, Technology and Innovation (APASTI) 2016-2025
China
*Baark, 2026, Xi Jinping’s discourse on science, technology and innovation: an analysis of ideologies and theoretical contexts, in: Asian Journal of Technology Innovation. “The debate in China on developing a national innovation system has challenged the linear model and gradually moved Xi’s discourse on STI towards a recognition of the importance of complex knowledge flows, associated with the internationally recognised eco-innovation models.”
*Fang, et al., 2025, Decoding China’s Industrial Policies (NBER)
Baark, 2021, Innovation and China’s Global Emergence
Naughton, 2020, The Rise of China’s Industrial Policy: 1978 to 2020
Li, 2018, Invisible bodies: Lu Gwei-djen and the specter of translation, in: Asian Medicine
Wei and Brock, 2013, Mr. Science and Chairman Mao’s Cultural Revolution: Science and Technology in Modern China
Andreas, 2009, Rise of the Red Engineers: The Cultural Revolution and the Origins of China’s New Class
Zuoyue Wang, 2009, STS 179 Science and Society in Modern China, Harvey Mudd College (online course)
Burns, 2008, East meets West: how China almost cured malaria, in: Endeavour
In Our Time: The Needham Question, 2006, BBC Radio 4
Taylor, 2005, Chinese Medicine in Early Communist China, 1945-63: a Medicine of Revolution
Rogaski, 2002, Nature, annihilation, and modernity: China’s Korean War germ-warfare experience reconsidered, in: Journal of Asian Studies
Saich, 1989, China’s Science Policy in the 80s
Simon and Goldman (eds.), 1988, Science and Technology in Post-Mao China
Chambers, 1984, Red and Expert: A Case Study of Chinese Science in the Cultural Revolution
Croizier, 1968, Traditional Medicine in Modern China: Science, Nationalism, and the Tensions of Cultural Change
Needham, 1960, The past in China’s present: a cultural, social, and philosophical background for contemporary China, in: The Centennial Review of Arts & Science. “The conception of the ‘chosen people’, God’s elect, which Europeans and Americans have transferred to themselves from ancient Israel by way of the link between puritanism and capitalism in the early phases of Western technological development, is still working great evil in the world…One may say, broadly speaking, that Chinese science and technology were very much more advanced than those of Europe (apart from the Hellenistic wave of brilliant theoretical formulation) between the -3rd and the +15th centuries, but after that, Renaissance Europe began to take the lead. Indeed, in Galileo’s time the technique of scientific discovery may be said to have been itself discovered, with the result that the unified world of modern science came into being, common to all men and liberated from the ethnic stamp which had qualified all forms of medieval science and technology. As I have said elsewhere, one must understand clearly that Renaissance Europe did not give rise to ‘European science’, but to universally valid modern science, in which men and women of all cultures can freely participate. The fact that this break-through took place in Europe and in Europe only is not proof of any specially privileged quality of the ‘Faustian soul’, as the Germanic mystagogues used to maintain, nor is it an argument for conferring upon European civilization a superior rank as the ‘culture of the universal’ as certain writers today still like to maintain. For until it has been demonstrated that the concrete historical development of Europe, the form of its feudalism, the needs of its growing mercantilism and industrialization, the prior impulsion and facilitation of its intellectual history from the pre-Socratic Greeks onward, and other similar factors, will not explain in an adequate manner the ‘miracle of Galileo’, we have no right to appeal to mysterious predestination or gifts of the European spirit as the explanation of the origin and growth of modern science. And, in view of the great achievement of non-European peoples on which this modern science was built, we have every reason for not doing this.”
Indonesia
Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono, et al., 2025, Bridging the gap: Indonesia’s research trajectory and national development through a scientometric analysis using SciVal, in: Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity. “Disparities between Indonesia’s research output and economic driver sectors, such as mineral fuels and agricultural products, highlight opportunities for enhanced research investment to support better leading economic contributors and elevate scholarly impact.”
Ahmad Najib Burhani, et al., 2021, The National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN): a new arrangement for research in Indonesia (ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute). “On 28 April 2021, President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) dissolved the Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education (Kemenristek-Dikti) and bestowed the authority to oversee research in the country upon the National Research and Innovation Agency (Badan Riset dan Inovasi
Nasional, or BRIN).”
Hefner, 2000, Civil Islam: Muslims and Democratization in Indonesia (B. J. Habibie)
Shiraishi, 1996, Re-wiring the Indonesian State, in: Making Indonesia (B. J. Habibie)
B. J. Habibie, 1983, Some thoughts concerning a strategy for the industrial transformation of a developing country, speech delivered to DLR, West Germany (“The process of industrial transformation in technologically less-developed countries can be conceived as being part of a larger and much more complex process of nation building.”)
Korea
*Glassman and Choi, 2014, The chaebol and the US military–industrial complex: Cold War geopolitical economy and South Korean industrialization, in: Environment and Planning A. “With the exception of [Jung-en] Woo’s early work on South Korean transformation, however, we see in the neo-Weberian literature a deep and sometimes systemic neglect of specific geopolitical and transnational class influences on East Asian development.”
*Jung-en Woo, 1991, Race to the Swift: State and Finance in Korean Industrialization
Juhn, 1965, Entrepreneurship in an underdeveloped economy: the case of Korea, 1890-1940 (George Washington University)
Malaysia
Jomo K.S., et al., 1999, Industrial Technology Development in Malaysia: Industry and Firm Studies
Jomo K.S. and Felker (eds.), 1997, Manufacturing Technology Policy in Malaysia
Anuwar Ali, 1992, Malaysian Industrialization: the Quest for Technology
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