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Hong Kong's laissez-faire tradition has crippled attempts to transform it into a more knowledge-intensive economy and this is a lesson with wide applicability. Many emerging economies face innovation bottlenecks, but even some more advanced economies face similar constraints and may benefit from the lessons of its negative example.

About the Author

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DOUGLAS B FULLER is Lecturer of International Business and Comparative Management, Kings College London, UK. His research centres on the technology development strategies of firms in emerging economies with a regional focus on developing Asia. He did degrees in history (BA) at Swarthmore College and East Asian Studies (MA) at UC Berkeley before completing a PhD in Political Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After taking his degree, he served as post-Doctoral Fellow at Stanford University's Stanford Project on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Subsequently, he taught at the School of International Service in Washington DC and in the Department of Management of Chinese University of Hong Kong. He arrived at Kings in January 2008.