Sung‐young Kim
Biographic Data
| ID | 3594542 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sung‐young Kim |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sung‐young |
| FAMILY NAME | Kim |
| SIGNATURE | KIM S Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Auckland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8245-7156 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 94 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
More ‘Creative’ Than ‘Destructive’? Synthesizing Schumpeterian and Developmental State Perspectives to Explain Mixed Results in Korea’s Clean Energy Shift
We develop a new way of analysing the state’s strategic role in the clean energy shift. We do so by synthesizing Schumpeterian understandings of ‘creative destruction’ and techno-economic change with cutting-edge developmental state theorizing centred on ‘developmental environmentalism’. Our approach allows us to explain South Korea’s mixed results in the clean energy shift over the 2008–2020 period by focussing on varying degrees of alignment be…
National Competitive Advantage and Energy Transitions in Korea and Taiwan
Despite the rise of domestic firms as leading manufacturers of clean technology products, Korea and Taiwan were the lowest users of green energy in the developed world. However, in 2016 Taiwan took a decisive turn to scaling up the use of renewables while lessening the dependence on fossil fuels and nuclear energy, and Korea did the same the following year. These significant events raise an intriguing question: Why were these countries capable of…
Hybridized industrial ecosystems and the makings of a new developmental infrastructure in East Asia’s green energy sector
In the midst of intensifying global competition over green energy systems, Korean and Taiwanese companies are rapidly rising as serious exporters of smart microgrids. What explains the emergence of an East Asian presence in the global green energy sector? My core argument is that policymakers in Korea and Taiwan view smart microgrids strategically as a new developmental infrastructure, which will help position domestic firms onto a new competitiv…
Greening of capitalism
Greening of capitalism: how Asia is driving the next great transformation." Political Science, 69(3), pp. 284–285
Korea's Greening Strategy
There are many ways that an economy can be greened. Building vast new renewable energy manufacturing industries is one pathway - as pioneered by China. Deploying extensive renewable power generation systems is another pathway - as demonstrated by Germany with its Energiewende. Yet another route is pursuing R&D led strategies and strategic initiatives via the military, as shown by the US. Now Korea demonstrates another pathway, one based on libera…
Developmental Environmentalism
Why, after fifty years of fossil fuelled 'brown growth' and steadfast refusal to join international agreements on carbon reduction did South Korea prioritize 'green growth' (GG) as an overarching national initiative in 2008? Our principal aim is to explain Korea's ambitious pursuit of GG since that time. We argue that Korean-style environmentalism is best understood as an extension of the long-held philosophy of developmentalism amongst the polic…
Digital development in Korea
Understanding why and how the breakneck growth of South Korea's information and communication technologies (ICT) sector and its contribution to the country's transformation into the rich club of nations is a challenging task, to say the least. To those familiar with Korea's ICT development, in the last 30 years it has been driven by a plethora of governmental plans involving many influential individuals from the Presidential Office to engineers i…
The Politics of Technological Upgrading in South Korea
How has industrial restructuring and technological upgrading in South Korea undertaken in the post-crisis era impacted on the state's capacity to guide strategic industry development? The latest reincarnation of the ‘end of the developmental state’ thesis proposes that industry policies are losing their strategic long-term oriented character due to the state's lack of legitimacy to play a guiding role after the economic recovery. I test this view…
Transitioning from fast-follower to innovator
In a world of rapid technological change and increasing interdependence between national and global networks, what institutions are necessary to facilitate the execution of a developmental project? An increasingly popular view expects the East Asian model of development to be ill-equipped to deal with the challenges involved in the information economy while the institutions of a ‘developmental network state’ are argued to be of greater utility. T…
Developmental Environmentalism
Why, after fifty years of fossil fuelled 'brown growth' and steadfast refusal to join international agreements on carbon reduction did South Korea prioritize 'green growth' (GG) as an overarching national initiative in 2008? Our principal aim is to explain Korea's ambitious pursuit of GG since that time. We argue that Korean-style environmentalism is best understood as an extension of the long-held philosophy of developmentalism amongst the polic…
Transitioning from fast-follower to innovator
In a world of rapid technological change and increasing interdependence between national and global networks, what institutions are necessary to facilitate the execution of a developmental project? An increasingly popular view expects the East Asian model of development to be ill-equipped to deal with the challenges involved in the information economy while the institutions of a ‘developmental network state’ are argued to be of greater utility. T…
Hybridized industrial ecosystems and the makings of a new developmental infrastructure in East Asia’s green energy sector
In the midst of intensifying global competition over green energy systems, Korean and Taiwanese companies are rapidly rising as serious exporters of smart microgrids. What explains the emergence of an East Asian presence in the global green energy sector? My core argument is that policymakers in Korea and Taiwan view smart microgrids strategically as a new developmental infrastructure, which will help position domestic firms onto a new competitiv…
National Competitive Advantage and Energy Transitions in Korea and Taiwan
Despite the rise of domestic firms as leading manufacturers of clean technology products, Korea and Taiwan were the lowest users of green energy in the developed world. However, in 2016 Taiwan took a decisive turn to scaling up the use of renewables while lessening the dependence on fossil fuels and nuclear energy, and Korea did the same the following year. These significant events raise an intriguing question: Why were these countries capable of…
The Politics of Technological Upgrading in South Korea
How has industrial restructuring and technological upgrading in South Korea undertaken in the post-crisis era impacted on the state's capacity to guide strategic industry development? The latest reincarnation of the ‘end of the developmental state’ thesis proposes that industry policies are losing their strategic long-term oriented character due to the state's lack of legitimacy to play a guiding role after the economic recovery. I test this view…
Transitioning from fast-follower to innovator
In a world of rapid technological change and increasing interdependence between national and global networks, what institutions are necessary to facilitate the execution of a developmental project? An increasingly popular view expects the East Asian model of development to be ill-equipped to deal with the challenges involved in the information economy while the institutions of a ‘developmental network state’ are argued to be of greater utility. T…
The Politics of Technological Upgrading in South Korea
How has industrial restructuring and technological upgrading in South Korea undertaken in the post-crisis era impacted on the state's capacity to guide strategic industry development? The latest reincarnation of the ‘end of the developmental state’ thesis proposes that industry policies are losing their strategic long-term oriented character due to the state's lack of legitimacy to play a guiding role after the economic recovery. I test this view…
Digital development in Korea
Understanding why and how the breakneck growth of South Korea's information and communication technologies (ICT) sector and its contribution to the country's transformation into the rich club of nations is a challenging task, to say the least. To those familiar with Korea's ICT development, in the last 30 years it has been driven by a plethora of governmental plans involving many influential individuals from the Presidential Office to engineers i…
Developmental Environmentalism
Why, after fifty years of fossil fuelled 'brown growth' and steadfast refusal to join international agreements on carbon reduction did South Korea prioritize 'green growth' (GG) as an overarching national initiative in 2008? Our principal aim is to explain Korea's ambitious pursuit of GG since that time. We argue that Korean-style environmentalism is best understood as an extension of the long-held philosophy of developmentalism amongst the polic…
Korea's Greening Strategy
There are many ways that an economy can be greened. Building vast new renewable energy manufacturing industries is one pathway - as pioneered by China. Deploying extensive renewable power generation systems is another pathway - as demonstrated by Germany with its Energiewende. Yet another route is pursuing R&D led strategies and strategic initiatives via the military, as shown by the US. Now Korea demonstrates another pathway, one based on libera…
Greening of capitalism
Greening of capitalism: how Asia is driving the next great transformation." Political Science, 69(3), pp. 284–285
Hybridized industrial ecosystems and the makings of a new developmental infrastructure in East Asia’s green energy sector
In the midst of intensifying global competition over green energy systems, Korean and Taiwanese companies are rapidly rising as serious exporters of smart microgrids. What explains the emergence of an East Asian presence in the global green energy sector? My core argument is that policymakers in Korea and Taiwan view smart microgrids strategically as a new developmental infrastructure, which will help position domestic firms onto a new competitiv…
National Competitive Advantage and Energy Transitions in Korea and Taiwan
Despite the rise of domestic firms as leading manufacturers of clean technology products, Korea and Taiwan were the lowest users of green energy in the developed world. However, in 2016 Taiwan took a decisive turn to scaling up the use of renewables while lessening the dependence on fossil fuels and nuclear energy, and Korea did the same the following year. These significant events raise an intriguing question: Why were these countries capable of…
More ‘Creative’ Than ‘Destructive’? Synthesizing Schumpeterian and Developmental State Perspectives to Explain Mixed Results in Korea’s Clean Energy Shift
We develop a new way of analysing the state’s strategic role in the clean energy shift. We do so by synthesizing Schumpeterian understandings of ‘creative destruction’ and techno-economic change with cutting-edge developmental state theorizing centred on ‘developmental environmentalism’. Our approach allows us to explain South Korea’s mixed results in the clean energy shift over the 2008–2020 period by focussing on varying degrees of alignment be…
Political science (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · Asian Industrial and Economic Development (7 works) · Economics (7 works) · Business (5 works) · Economic system (5 works) · Developmental state (4 works) · Law (4 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (3 works) · Government (linguistics (3 works)