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Asian Network for Learning, Innovation, and Competence Building Systems (ASIALICS)
ASIALICS is a network among scholars, practitioners and policymakers who are interested in a learning, innovation and competence building system in Asia. It has a cooperative relationship with the Global Network for the Economics of Learning, Innovation, and Competence Building Systems (GLOBELICS). ASIALICS aims to explore and develop the concept of learning, innovation and competence building as an analytical framework. The objective of ASIALICS is to stimulate the establishment of knowledge based strategies for economic development in Asia. The idea is to bring together interesting issues about what is going on in Asian countries and companies and to share experiences regarding methodology, analytical results and policies.
Asia has been a serious player not only in science, technology and innovation but also in linking different cultures of the world. This is in line with the ongoing Asia-wide cooperation schemes that emphasize knowledge and experiences sharing and joint efforts to promote knowledge-based and learning economies such as ASEAN Plus Three (Japan, China, and South Korea), ASEAN-Japan Free Trade Area, and Asian Cooperation Dialogue (ACD). To achieve this aspiration, a group of Asian scholars from Thailand, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, China and Vietnam with strong support from GLOBELICS held the first international conference on Asian innovation systems in Bangkok on April 2004 (programs and papers can be downloaded at www.nstda.or.th/nstc/nis.htm). About 150 professionals who participated in the seminar agreed to organize the ASIALICS conference annually, publish a journal and book in Asian innovation system and clusters, and explore possibilities of joint research and training in this field.
Following the first international conference in Bangkok, ASIALICS organized the second International Conference on "Innovation Policy and Management in Changing Asia on April 2005 in Jeju Island, Korea. About 120 professionals participated and 60 papers were presented in the conference (programs and papers can be downloaded at www.asialics.org). The aim of this international conference was to enrich and enhance the quality of innovation studies so as to find and exchange insights on how to develop innovative capability and competence building of nations and firms in rapidly changing business environment. The third international conference was held in Shanghai, China on April 2006, organized by Tongji University. The fourth international conference was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on July 2007, organized by University of Malaya.
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