Globalizing Regional Development in East Asia
Production Networks, Clusters, and Entrepreneurship
Regions and Cities Series

Significant historical and geographical differences account for the many processes and trajectories of regional development in East Asia. These historical and geographical specificities in East Asia have prompted serious re-examination of existing theories in regional development, and in particular the "new regionalism" approach associated with such ideas as the learning region, institutional thickness, relational assets, and regional innovation system. This book brings together a group of leading researchers specializing in local and regional development in East Asian economies. Through in-depth empirical studies of specific regions and localities, these authors offer fresh and innovative perspectives on how regions evolve and develop over time in the world?s most dynamic macro-regional economy. In particular, their work points to the critical importance of local and trans-local processes in shaping regional development trajectories.

The book is timely given that the debate on the nature and dynamics of regional development in both academic and policy circles has now moved on. From the earlier focus on endogenous regional assets (such as localized networks of association and trust), scholars and policymakers are now analyzing the complex relationship between economic globalization and regional change. This high calibre collection makes a significant contribution to the literature on local and regional development in Asia and provides an important resource for researchers, students, and policy makers interested in East Asia.

This book was published as a special issue of Regional Studies.

1. Globalizing Regional Development in East Asia: Production Networks, Clusters, and Entrepreneurship 2. Situating Regional Development in the Competitive Dynamics of Global Production Networks: An East Asian Perspective Part One: Global production networks and regional development 3. Revisiting the Silicon Island? The Geographically Varied "Strategic Coupling" in the Development of High-technology Parks in Taiwan 4. Strategic Coupling of Regional Development in Global Production Networks: Redistribution of Taiwan PC Investment from Pearl River Delta to Yangtze River Delta, China 5. Multinationals, Geographical Spillovers and Regional Development in Thailand 6. From Global Production Networks to Global Reproduction Networks: Households, Migration and Regional Development in Cavite, Philippines Part Two: Politics and entrepreneurship in regional development 7. Balanced Development in Globalizing Regional Development? Unpacking the New Regional Policy in South Korea 8. Scaling Up Regional Development in Globalizing China: Local Capital Accumulation, Land-Centered Politics, and Reproduction of Space 9. Globalizing Regional Development in Sunan, China: Does Suzhou Industrial Park Fit a Neo-Marshallian District Model? 10. Clustering as anti-politics machine? Situating the politics of regional economic development and Malaysia’s Multimedia Super Corridor 11. Entrepreneurship and Regional Culture: The case of Hamamatsu and Kyoto, Japan

Henry Wai-chung Yeung is Professor of Economic Geography at the Department of Geography, National University of Singapore. His books include Transnational Corporations and Business Networks and Chinese Capitalism in a Global Era (also published by Routledge). He is the editor of Environment and Planning A, Economic Geography, and Review of International Political Economy.