Mats Benner, Professor, School of Economics and Management, Lund University, Sweden

‘Mats Benner’s new book provides an expansive and much needed analysis on the campaign by Asian universities, and their governments, to be among the world’s most productive in research, with a laser focus on building nation-state economies. What sets Asia’s Rising Research Dominance apart is the nuance provided in the distinct national case studies – China, Hong Kong and Macau, Taiwan, India, Japan, South Korea. Here is a story of a dramatic trajectory, where the goal at first was simply quantity in research productivity, and now increasingly quality and economic impact.’

• Contents: 1. Overture: A new academic landscape? 2. China: a global academic hegemon in the making? 3. India: the perils of institutional churn 4. Japan: resilient stagnation? 5. ‘Hospitality, not a country’: the anatomy of academic prominence in Singapore 6. South Korea: straddling tradition and modernity 7. Taiwan: resilient exceptionalism 8. Hong Kong and Macau: straddling and thriving in the shadow of hierarchy 9. Reprise: universities, state-building and globalization Index

Mats Benner, Professor, School of Economics and Management, Lund University, Sweden

‘Mats Benner’s new book provides an expansive and much needed analysis on the campaign by Asian universities, and their governments, to be among the world’s most productive in research, with a laser focus on building nation-state economies. What sets Asia’s Rising Research Dominance apart is the nuance provided in the distinct national case studies – China, Hong Kong and Macau, Taiwan, India, Japan, South Korea. Here is a story of a dramatic trajectory, where the goal at first was simply quantity in research productivity, and now increasingly quality and economic impact.’

• Contents: 1. Overture: A new academic landscape? 2. China: a global academic hegemon in the making? 3. India: the perils of institutional churn 4. Japan: resilient stagnation? 5. ‘Hospitality, not a country’: the anatomy of academic prominence in Singapore 6. South Korea: straddling tradition and modernity 7. Taiwan: resilient exceptionalism 8. Hong Kong and Macau: straddling and thriving in the shadow of hierarchy 9. Reprise: universities, state-building and globalization Index

Mats Benner, Professor, School of Economics and Management, Lund University, Sweden

‘Mats Benner’s new book provides an expansive and much needed analysis on the campaign by Asian universities, and their governments, to be among the world’s most productive in research, with a laser focus on building nation-state economies. What sets Asia’s Rising Research Dominance apart is the nuance provided in the distinct national case studies – China, Hong Kong and Macau, Taiwan, India, Japan, South Korea. Here is a story of a dramatic trajectory, where the goal at first was simply quantity in research productivity, and now increasingly quality and economic impact.’

• Contents: 1. Overture: A new academic landscape? 2. China: a global academic hegemon in the making? 3. India: the perils of institutional churn 4. Japan: resilient stagnation? 5. ‘Hospitality, not a country’: the anatomy of academic prominence in Singapore 6. South Korea: straddling tradition and modernity 7. Taiwan: resilient exceptionalism 8. Hong Kong and Macau: straddling and thriving in the shadow of hierarchy 9. Reprise: universities, state-building and globalization Index