Asias innovation systems in transition Asias innovation systems in transition : an introduction Bengt ke lundvall patarapong intarakumnerd and Jan Vang Lauridsen Opportunities for Asian countries to catch up with knowledge based competition Tilman Altenburg Transnational communities offshore outsourcing and offshore subsidiaries : the case of the Indian IT service industry Jan Vang Lauridsen and Mikkel Lucas Overby Effectively linking international national and regional innovation systems : insights from India and Indonesia Martina Fromhold Eisebith Thailands national innovation system in transition Patarapong Intarakumnerd Hong Kongs innovation system in transition : challenges of regional integration and promotion of high technology Erik Baark and Naubahar Sharif The Indonesian innovation system at a crossroads Peter Gammeltoft and Erman Aminulla Performance and sources of industrial innovation in Koreas innovation systems Kong Rae Lee Advance of science based industries and the changing innovation system of Japan Hiroyuki Odagiri National innovation systems and Indias IT capability : are there any lessons for Asean new comers Nagesh Kumar and K.J. Joseph Innovating for global competition : Singapores pathway to high tech development Henry Wai chung Yeung Policy learning as a key process in the transformation of the Chinese innovation systems Shulin Gu and Bengt ke Lundvall The success of Asian economies (first Japan then Taiwan South Korea Singapore Hong Kong and more recently China and India) has made it tempting to look for an Asian model of development . However the strength of Asian development lies less in strategies that reproduce successful national systems of innovation and more in the capacity for institutional change to open up new development trajectories with greater emphasis on knowledge and learning. The select group of contributors demonstrate that although there are important differences among Asian countries in terms of institutional set ups supporting innovation government policies and industrial structures they share common transitional processes to cope with the globalizing learning economy