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Infrastructure, Resident Patents and Income Levels in Developing Asia

INTECH, UNU, Keizer Karelplein 19, 6211-TC Maastricht, the Netherlands

This paper examines the state of basic and high-tech infrastructure, and their relationship with residents' patents and per capita incomes in Asia. Obviously, Asian economies with better basic infrastructure enjoyed relatively high per capita incomes, while not necessarily high levels of high-tech infrastructure and residents' patenting. Asian econ omies with high levels of high-tech infrastructure show high per capita income levels as well as high residents' patenting levels. High-tech endowments helped Korea and Chinese Taipei to generate substantial resident patents. The transitional economies enjoyed fairly strong high-tech endowments, which was not translated into strong resident patents owing to reforms and cutbacks on funding. China, India and Pakistan show weak high- tech endowments and resident patents, but still performed better than the South-East Asian second-tier newly industrialised economics (NIEs). The Arab economies, Malaysia and Thailand enjoy strong basic infrastructure, but lack high-tech endowments and, with that, resident's patenting capabilities.

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