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весь интернет забит же гугли "thaksinomics", и обретешь типичное http://ijie.um.edu.my/filebank/arti Thaksin's Legacy: Thaksinomics and Its Impact on Thailand's National Innovation System and Industrial Upgrading* ...To make this dream come true, several strategies were devised. These included continuous investment in R&D and technology, conducive environment for attracting and stimulating innovation, high accessibility to knowledge and information across the nation, fluent English as a second language, cultivating a strong learning basis such as passion for reading and better accessibility to cheap but good books (see Phasukavanich, 2003). Equally important, the Ten-Year Science and Technology Action Plan (2004-2013), approved by the Thaksin Cabinet, projects an ambitious vision that the Thai knowledge-based society will be able to compete internationally. It particularly placed the concept of a national innovation system and industrial clusters at the core. The scope of the plan was much broader than the aforementioned four functional areas of S&T policy (research and development, human resource development, technology transfer, and S&T infrastructure development). Measures to stimulate innovations and to strengthen the national innovation system and industrial clusters are explicitly highlighted. The Board of Investment (BOI) under the chairmanship of Dr. Somkid Jatusripitak, Deputy Prime Minister and Thaksin's economic tsar, substantially changed its policy by paying more attention to issues underlying long- term competitiveness of the country, namely, development of indigenous technological capability and human resources. A special investment package promoting skills, technology and innovation (STI) was initiated. Firms are eligible for one or two years of extra tax incentives if they undertake the following activities in the first three years: spending at least 1%-2% of their sales on R&D or design; ensuring that at least 5% of their workforce comprise scientists or engineers with at least a Bachelor's degree; spending at least 1% of their total payroll on employee training; and spending at least 1% of total payroll on training the personnel of their local suppliers. The flourishing of cluster concept also affected investment policy. In 2004, BOI initiated another set of investment packages for specific strategic clusters such as hard disk drives and semiconductors. Eligible firms in these sectors were not only final product makers but also suppliers in the value chain. This indicates a major shift in the focus of investment policy measures from giving incentives for individual projects, which might not be related to each other, to using incentives to strengthen clusters as a whole. Together with these cluster initiatives, the Thaksin government tried to build S&T infrastructure in provinces outside Bangkok by initiating a plan to set up regional science parks and incubators in the north, northeast, east and south. These regional science parks and incubators were established on university campuses to act as intermediaries between local universities and local entrepreneurs and promoters of new knowledge-intensive companies. Добавить комментарий: |
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