Robyn Klingler‐vidra
Biographic Data
| ID | 4016067 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robyn Klingler‐vidra |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Klingler‐vidra |
| SIGNATURE | VIDRA R K |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4215-2320 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 90 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The globalization of east Asian venture capital: The effects of its ‘return diffusion’ on Silicon Valley
The global financial system's investment in high-technology start-ups is exemplified by Silicon Valley venture capital (VC). While Silicon Valley remains a leading hub of VC activity worldwide, its norms and practices have evolved since its origins in the Second World War, especially with the internationalization of VC in the twenty-first century. This article offers a novel explanation for these changes by analysing east Asian governments' polic…
Who’s governing the market? bringing the individual back into the study of the developmental state
Research on the Northeast Asian economic miracle has focused on structural explanations, using institutional, geopolitical, and cultural variables. Much less focus has been on the role of the individuals (or “actors” or “agents”) responsible for leading the developmental states. This article contributes by using homophily theory to add a novel explanation for the origins of the success of the East Asian developmental states. Homophily refers to t…
Communicating the societal value of the entrepreneurial university: Evidence from South Korea
From Diffusion to Diffuse-ability: A Text-as-Data Approach to Explaining the Global Diffusion of Corporate Sustainability Policy
This paper argues that attributes of diffusion objects, in their own right, shape the form and extent of policy diffusion. To date, diffusion scholarship focuses on actor-level attributes (e.g., connections, culture, physical proximity, etc.) to explain what is diffused and how much. Extending existing theory on the impacts of policies’ textual properties on diffusion patterns, we argue that policies that are easier to understand, specific in the…
Bridging developmental state and entrepreneurial state theory: A typology of startup policies’ incumbent firm benefits
Developmental state literature primarily focuses on the state’s (evolving) direct relationship with large incumbent firms. This article bridges developmental state and entrepreneurial state theories by employing an open innovation logic. We study Japan (1991-2021) as an archetypal developmental state; we hand coded 83 startup policies and a corpus of media coverage of the policies’ launch events and performance for how policymakers speak about wa…
A Region of Regimes: Prosperity and Plunder in the Asia-Pacific, by T.J. Pempel
A Region of Regimes is one of the last manuscripts in the Cornell Studies in Political Economy series, which was skilfully edited by Peter Katzenstein and Roger Haydon for more than forty years. T.J. Pempel, the author, has himself been an important contributor to the series, with seminal works on East Asian political economy published on specific countries (for example, Regime Shift: Comparative Dynamics of the Japanese Political Economy, 1998) …
The UN Sustainable Development Goals as a North Star: How an intermediary network makes, takes, and retrofits the meaning of the Sustainable Development Goals
In this paper, we investigate how a network of informal intermediaries – including international organizations, consultancies, business alliances, and standard setters – has contributed to the persistence of the universalistic meaning of the UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDGs). Based on our analysis of 26 interviews and 121 online resources produced by the 22 most prominent intermediaries, we find that SDG diffusion is distinct from linear dep…
In and out of revolving doors in European Union financial regulatory authorities
Although the idea of revolving doors evokes the dynamic image of moving in and out of public and private sector jobs, most scholars take a static view of the revolving door phenomenon, looking mainly at entrances, sometimes at exits, but almost never at both. This is a serious oversight given that normative concerns about revolving doors turn mainly on assumptions about how individuals become socialized through their multiple interactions working…
Science and Technology Policies and the Middle-Income Trap: Lessons from Vietnam
As Vietnam crossed the World Bank’s threshold from ‘low income’ to ‘lower middle-income’ in 2010 the government and aid donors started to speak about ‘the middle-income trap’ as a central problem; and to frame ‘science and technology (S&T) policy’ as a means of sustaining economic growth and thereby avoiding the trap. They identified China and its S&T policy as a model, and pointed to Intel’s $1 billion facility as evidence of a burgeoning techno…
Inclusive innovation policy as social capital accumulation strategy
Governments deploy policies that strive to increase the participation rates of under-represented demographic groups (according to gender, ethnicity, sexuality and disability status) in innovative activities. A growing thrust of these policies focuses on accumulating non-financial resources, particularly social capital, as the strategy for improving inclusion. Such policies include mentoring and networking schemes, role model campaigns, competitio…
AI super-powers: China, Silicon Valley and the new world order
The Trump–Xi trade war over semi-conductors is just one manifestation of the trepidation about who holds tech supremacy: the US or China. Does the future lie in Silicon Valley, the epitome of American entrepreneurship and home to the mission-oriented founders who have connected us and organized the world's information? Or with the growing Chinese tech behemoths, which we presume are propped up by the state? The two countries’ relative artificial …
When venture capital is patient capital: Seed Funding as a Source of Patient Capital for High-Growth Companies
Patient capital is vital to start-up companies which often struggle to access traditional finance. This article conceptualizes the conditions in which venture capital (VC) demonstrates patience in an effort to better understand the sources of patient capital available for start-up companies. VC investment stage is identified as a key determinant of VC patience. VC ‘seed stage’ investing demonstrates patience through its long intended investment h…
Diffusion and adaptation: Why even the Silicon Valley model is adapted as it diffuses to East Asia
Diffusion scholarship expects little adaptation of core elements of policy models. However, the empirical reality is different; diffusion of even highly regarded models, such as the Silicon Valley venture capital (VC) policy model, results in marked adaptation. This article demonstrates why the Silicon Valley VC model is necessarily adapted differently by policy-makers in the geographically, ethnically and economically proximate states of Hong Ko…
Building a Venture Capital Market in Vietnam: Diffusion of a Neoliberal Market Strategy to a Socialist State
Vietnam’s venture capital (VC) industry took shape in the late 1990s during a period of exceptional economic growth in the country and the development of its high-technology sector. High growth rates and technological advances have typically coincided with both strong VC market activity and state support of equity financing. This, however, has not been the case in Vietnam. In this article a policy diffusion framework is used to investigate the in…
AI super-powers: China, Silicon Valley and the new world order
The Trump–Xi trade war over semi-conductors is just one manifestation of the trepidation about who holds tech supremacy: the US or China. Does the future lie in Silicon Valley, the epitome of American entrepreneurship and home to the mission-oriented founders who have connected us and organized the world's information? Or with the growing Chinese tech behemoths, which we presume are propped up by the state? The two countries’ relative artificial …
In and out of revolving doors in European Union financial regulatory authorities
Although the idea of revolving doors evokes the dynamic image of moving in and out of public and private sector jobs, most scholars take a static view of the revolving door phenomenon, looking mainly at entrances, sometimes at exits, but almost never at both. This is a serious oversight given that normative concerns about revolving doors turn mainly on assumptions about how individuals become socialized through their multiple interactions working…
When venture capital is patient capital: Seed Funding as a Source of Patient Capital for High-Growth Companies
Patient capital is vital to start-up companies which often struggle to access traditional finance. This article conceptualizes the conditions in which venture capital (VC) demonstrates patience in an effort to better understand the sources of patient capital available for start-up companies. VC investment stage is identified as a key determinant of VC patience. VC ‘seed stage’ investing demonstrates patience through its long intended investment h…
Diffusion and adaptation: Why even the Silicon Valley model is adapted as it diffuses to East Asia
Diffusion scholarship expects little adaptation of core elements of policy models. However, the empirical reality is different; diffusion of even highly regarded models, such as the Silicon Valley venture capital (VC) policy model, results in marked adaptation. This article demonstrates why the Silicon Valley VC model is necessarily adapted differently by policy-makers in the geographically, ethnically and economically proximate states of Hong Ko…
The UN Sustainable Development Goals as a North Star: How an intermediary network makes, takes, and retrofits the meaning of the Sustainable Development Goals
In this paper, we investigate how a network of informal intermediaries – including international organizations, consultancies, business alliances, and standard setters – has contributed to the persistence of the universalistic meaning of the UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDGs). Based on our analysis of 26 interviews and 121 online resources produced by the 22 most prominent intermediaries, we find that SDG diffusion is distinct from linear dep…
Building a Venture Capital Market in Vietnam: Diffusion of a Neoliberal Market Strategy to a Socialist State
Vietnam’s venture capital (VC) industry took shape in the late 1990s during a period of exceptional economic growth in the country and the development of its high-technology sector. High growth rates and technological advances have typically coincided with both strong VC market activity and state support of equity financing. This, however, has not been the case in Vietnam. In this article a policy diffusion framework is used to investigate the in…
Inclusive innovation policy as social capital accumulation strategy
Governments deploy policies that strive to increase the participation rates of under-represented demographic groups (according to gender, ethnicity, sexuality and disability status) in innovative activities. A growing thrust of these policies focuses on accumulating non-financial resources, particularly social capital, as the strategy for improving inclusion. Such policies include mentoring and networking schemes, role model campaigns, competitio…
Building a Venture Capital Market in Vietnam: Diffusion of a Neoliberal Market Strategy to a Socialist State
Vietnam’s venture capital (VC) industry took shape in the late 1990s during a period of exceptional economic growth in the country and the development of its high-technology sector. High growth rates and technological advances have typically coincided with both strong VC market activity and state support of equity financing. This, however, has not been the case in Vietnam. In this article a policy diffusion framework is used to investigate the in…
Diffusion and adaptation: Why even the Silicon Valley model is adapted as it diffuses to East Asia
Diffusion scholarship expects little adaptation of core elements of policy models. However, the empirical reality is different; diffusion of even highly regarded models, such as the Silicon Valley venture capital (VC) policy model, results in marked adaptation. This article demonstrates why the Silicon Valley VC model is necessarily adapted differently by policy-makers in the geographically, ethnically and economically proximate states of Hong Ko…
When venture capital is patient capital: Seed Funding as a Source of Patient Capital for High-Growth Companies
Patient capital is vital to start-up companies which often struggle to access traditional finance. This article conceptualizes the conditions in which venture capital (VC) demonstrates patience in an effort to better understand the sources of patient capital available for start-up companies. VC investment stage is identified as a key determinant of VC patience. VC ‘seed stage’ investing demonstrates patience through its long intended investment h…
AI super-powers: China, Silicon Valley and the new world order
The Trump–Xi trade war over semi-conductors is just one manifestation of the trepidation about who holds tech supremacy: the US or China. Does the future lie in Silicon Valley, the epitome of American entrepreneurship and home to the mission-oriented founders who have connected us and organized the world's information? Or with the growing Chinese tech behemoths, which we presume are propped up by the state? The two countries’ relative artificial …
Science and Technology Policies and the Middle-Income Trap: Lessons from Vietnam
As Vietnam crossed the World Bank’s threshold from ‘low income’ to ‘lower middle-income’ in 2010 the government and aid donors started to speak about ‘the middle-income trap’ as a central problem; and to frame ‘science and technology (S&T) policy’ as a means of sustaining economic growth and thereby avoiding the trap. They identified China and its S&T policy as a model, and pointed to Intel’s $1 billion facility as evidence of a burgeoning techno…
Inclusive innovation policy as social capital accumulation strategy
Governments deploy policies that strive to increase the participation rates of under-represented demographic groups (according to gender, ethnicity, sexuality and disability status) in innovative activities. A growing thrust of these policies focuses on accumulating non-financial resources, particularly social capital, as the strategy for improving inclusion. Such policies include mentoring and networking schemes, role model campaigns, competitio…
In and out of revolving doors in European Union financial regulatory authorities
Although the idea of revolving doors evokes the dynamic image of moving in and out of public and private sector jobs, most scholars take a static view of the revolving door phenomenon, looking mainly at entrances, sometimes at exits, but almost never at both. This is a serious oversight given that normative concerns about revolving doors turn mainly on assumptions about how individuals become socialized through their multiple interactions working…
Bridging developmental state and entrepreneurial state theory: A typology of startup policies’ incumbent firm benefits
Developmental state literature primarily focuses on the state’s (evolving) direct relationship with large incumbent firms. This article bridges developmental state and entrepreneurial state theories by employing an open innovation logic. We study Japan (1991-2021) as an archetypal developmental state; we hand coded 83 startup policies and a corpus of media coverage of the policies’ launch events and performance for how policymakers speak about wa…
A Region of Regimes: Prosperity and Plunder in the Asia-Pacific, by T.J. Pempel
A Region of Regimes is one of the last manuscripts in the Cornell Studies in Political Economy series, which was skilfully edited by Peter Katzenstein and Roger Haydon for more than forty years. T.J. Pempel, the author, has himself been an important contributor to the series, with seminal works on East Asian political economy published on specific countries (for example, Regime Shift: Comparative Dynamics of the Japanese Political Economy, 1998) …
The UN Sustainable Development Goals as a North Star: How an intermediary network makes, takes, and retrofits the meaning of the Sustainable Development Goals
In this paper, we investigate how a network of informal intermediaries – including international organizations, consultancies, business alliances, and standard setters – has contributed to the persistence of the universalistic meaning of the UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDGs). Based on our analysis of 26 interviews and 121 online resources produced by the 22 most prominent intermediaries, we find that SDG diffusion is distinct from linear dep…
From Diffusion to Diffuse-ability: A Text-as-Data Approach to Explaining the Global Diffusion of Corporate Sustainability Policy
This paper argues that attributes of diffusion objects, in their own right, shape the form and extent of policy diffusion. To date, diffusion scholarship focuses on actor-level attributes (e.g., connections, culture, physical proximity, etc.) to explain what is diffused and how much. Extending existing theory on the impacts of policies’ textual properties on diffusion patterns, we argue that policies that are easier to understand, specific in the…
The globalization of east Asian venture capital: The effects of its ‘return diffusion’ on Silicon Valley
The global financial system's investment in high-technology start-ups is exemplified by Silicon Valley venture capital (VC). While Silicon Valley remains a leading hub of VC activity worldwide, its norms and practices have evolved since its origins in the Second World War, especially with the internationalization of VC in the twenty-first century. This article offers a novel explanation for these changes by analysing east Asian governments' polic…
Who’s governing the market? bringing the individual back into the study of the developmental state
Research on the Northeast Asian economic miracle has focused on structural explanations, using institutional, geopolitical, and cultural variables. Much less focus has been on the role of the individuals (or “actors” or “agents”) responsible for leading the developmental states. This article contributes by using homophily theory to add a novel explanation for the origins of the success of the East Asian developmental states. Homophily refers to t…
Communicating the societal value of the entrepreneurial university: Evidence from South Korea
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