The Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) will hold the second workshop of “Innovation Policy in/for ASEAN”, on 7 - 8 July 2017, at Bangkok, Thailand. This study investigates what is required for innovation in AMEs by reviewing their existing innovation policies and learning from the successful cases of other developed countries in East Asia. Furthermore, it also intends to explore common ASEAN region-wide policies that further innovation in this region as a whole, which provide a suggestion to the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) Blueprint 2025.

The project aims:

1. To conduct stocktaking of existing technology/innovation policies taken in developed AMEs such as Indonesia, Malaysia the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam, and to present possible directions for future policies to these countries;
2. To examine successful national innovation systems of China and Singapore through including case studies and derive useful implications to AMEs;
3. To investigate ASEAN-wide innovation policies that are necessary for promoting regional innovation in ASEAN; and
4. To conduct empirical analyses of measuring innovation issues by using data such as R&D, patents, and human resources in order to reinforce the proposed arguments (if possible).