Significantly, there do not appear to be any nodes equivalent to Hong Kong or Singapore emerging within Western or Eastern Europe. Networks Have Nodes Development is increasingly a self-conscious game of insertion into networks. This is as true for places as it is for companies. Previously, the development strategy for a place centered around protecting and supporting national industries as they, hopefully, progressed from incubation-infant industries to mature competitive industries. The successes and failures of this approach have long been debated.
Places now conceive their development strategies in terms of insertion into a network.
The debate has moved to center on how best to achieve insertion. Within a given network not all nodes are equal. In the networked economies of the Asian-Pacific region these differences are quite striking. The networks continued to grow and reconfigure. This project explores the role of networked production, an old model, that has taken on new life, new form, new meaning, and a radically new scale in Asia.