‘Sticky Spots on Slippery Slopes: Technological Upgrading in the Integrated Circuit (IC) Industry in Developing East Asia’ was the interesting title of the public lecture delivered on 9 April 2012 at UTAR Perak Campus by Prof Dr Rajah Rasiah, Khazanah Nasional Chair of Regulatory Studies and Professor of Technology and Innovation Policy, Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Malaya.
He was invited by UTAR Centre for Economic Studies to present the talk. The lecture provided a comparative study on the IC industry in Taiwan and Malaysia and how regulatory differences and other factors had led IC firms in Taiwan to succeed in reaching the technology frontier while those in Malaysia lagged far behind.