Innovation and entrepreneurship rank highly on the strategic agenda of most countries today. As global economic competition intensifies, many national policymakers now recognize the central importance of entrepreneurship education and the building of financial institutions to promote long-term innovation, entrepreneurship, and economic growth. Drivers of Innovation brings together scholars from the United States and Asia to explore those education and finance policies that might be conducive to accelerating innovation and developing a more entrepreneurial workforce in East Asia. 

Some of the questions covered include: How do universities in China and Singapore experiment with new types of learning in their quest to promote innovation and entrepreneurship? Is there a need to transform the traditional university into an “entrepreneurial university”? What are the recent developments in and outstanding challenges to financing innovation in China and Japan? What is the government’s role in promoting innovative entrepreneurship under the shadow of big business in South Korea? What can we learn about the capacity of services to drive innovation-led growth in India? 

Drivers of Innovation will serve as a valuable reference for scholars and policymakers working to develop human capital for innovation in Asia.

Contents

1. Educating Entrepreneurs and Financing Innovation in Asia 
   Fei Yan, Yong Suk Lee, Lin William Cong, Charles Eesley, and Charles Lee
2. Fostering Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Education, Human Capital, and the Institutional Environment 
   Charles Eesley, Lijie Zhou, and You (Willow) Wu
3. Entrepreneurial Scaling Strategy: Managerial and Policy Considerations 
   David H. Hsu
4. Innovation Policy and Star Scientists in Japan 
   Tatsuo Sasaki, Hiromi S. Nagane, Yuta Fukudome, and Kanetaka Maki
5. Financing Innovation in Japan: Challenges and Recent Progress 
   Takeo Hoshi and Kenji Kushida
6. Promoting Entrepreneurship under the Shadow of Big Business in Korea: The Role of the Government 
   Hicheon Kim, Dohyeon Kim, and He Soung Ahn
7. The Creativity and Labor Market Performance of Korean College Graduates: Implications for Human Capital Policy 
   Jin-Yeong Kim
8. Financing Innovative Enterprises in China: A Public Policy Perspective 
   Lin William Cong, Charles M. C. Lee, Yuanyu Qu, and Tao She
9. Forging Entrepreneurship in Asia: A Comparative Study of Tsinghua University and the National University of Singapore 
   Zhou Zhong, Fei Yan, and Chao Zhang
10. Education and Human Capital for Innovation in India’s Service Sector 
    Rafiq Dossani
11. In Need of a Big Bang: Toward a Merit-Based System for Government-Sponsored Research in India 
    Dinsha Mistree
12. The Implications of AI for Business and Education, and Singapore’s Policy Response 
    Mohan Kankanhalli and Bernard Yeung