Keun Lee
- Senior Research Fellow:Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge / Laboratory for Economics of Innovation
- Keun Lee has been at HSE University since 2019.
Education and Degrees
- 1989
PhD
University of California, Berkeley - 1987
Master of Arts
University of California
Editorship
Editor, Research Policy (the top journal in innovation studies with IF 4.5)
Associate Editor, Industrial and Corporate Change (the leading journal in Schumpeterian economics)
Editor, Seoul Journal of Economics
Member of the Editorial Board:
Asian Economic Journal (Blackwell)
Evolutionary and Institutional Economics Review
Innovation and Development (Taylor & Francis)
Global Economic Review (Francis-Cass)
China Economic Journal
International Journal of Institutions and Economies
Korean Studies (UH press)
Millennial Asia
Honors
Awarded the Academic Prize by the National Academy of Sciences of Korea. 2015
The Award for the Research on the Korean economy (Korean Economic Association: 2017, 2)
Accepted as a life-time fellow of the Korea Academy of Science and Technology, Dec. 2011
Recognized as one of the 100 Talents to shine Korea in 2020. Dong-A newspaper, April 2010
Awarded the Grand Prize of the Market Economy Research by the Korea Federation of Industry, 2009, December
The Chung Foundation Award: A Prize for best book of year, awarded by Maeil Business Newspaper, July 2009
Received the First SNU Research Award by the Seoul National University, 2008
Chung-ram Prize, 2004 by the Korean Economic Association, (best economist in Korea of age 45 or less)
Listed in Marquis Who's Who in the World (1997, 14th edition)
Maekyung Economist Award (Prize for the best economics article of the year: March 24 1998)
Publications17
- Article Wong C., Sheu J., Lee K. Assessing the quest of SMEs in pivoting for new technological ventures: comparing the patenting indexes of seven developed cities // Scientometrics. 2023. Vol. 128. P. 4029-4064. doi
- Article Wong C., Lee K. Evolution of innovation systems of two industrial districts in East Asia: transformation and upgrade from a peripheral system and the role of the core firms, Samsung and TSMC // Journal of Evolutionary Economics. 2022. Vol. 32. P. 955-990. doi
- Article Han J., Lee K. Heterogeneous technology and specialization for economic growth beyond the middle-income stage // Economic Modelling. 2022. Vol. 112. Article 105853. doi
- Article Kim J., Lee K. Local–global interface as a key factor in the catching up of regional innovation systems: Fast versus slow catching up among Taipei, Shenzhen, and Penang in Asia // Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 2022. Vol. 174. Article 121271. doi
- Article Lee S., Lee K. 3% rules the market: herding behavior of a group of investors, asset market volatility, and return to the group in an agent-based model // Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination. 2021. Vol. 16. P. 359-380. doi
- Chapter Lee K. Economics of Technological Leapfrogging, in: The Challenges of Technology and Economic Catch-up in Emerging Economies / Ed. by J. L. Lee, K. Lee, D. Meissner, S. Radosevic, N. Vonortas. Oxford University Press, 2021. doi Ch. 5. P. 123-159. doi
- Article Lee J., Lee K. Is the fourth industrial revolution a continuation of the third industrial revolution or something new under the sun? Analyzing technological regimes using US patent data // Industrial and Corporate Change. 2021. Vol. 30. No. 1. P. 137-159. doi
- Article Lee J., Lee K., Meissner D., Radosevic S., Vonortas N. Local capacity, innovative entrepreneurial places and global connections: an overview // The Journal of Technology Transfer. 2021. Vol. 46. No. 3. P. 563-573. doi
- Article Lebdioui A., Lee K., Pietrobelli C. Local-foreign technology interface, resource-based development, and industrial policy: how Chile and Malaysia are escaping the middle-income trap // The Journal of Technology Transfer. 2021. Vol. 46. No. 3. P. 660-685. doi
- Chapter Lee J., Lee K., Meissner D., Radosevic S., Vonortas N. Technology Upgrading and Economic Catch-Up: Context, Overview, and Conclusions, in: The Challenges of Technology and Economic Catch-up in Emerging Economies / Ed. by J. L. Lee, K. Lee, D. Meissner, S. Radosevic, N. Vonortas. Oxford University Press, 2021. doi Ch. 1. P. 1-34. doi
- Book The Challenges of Technology and Economic Catch-up in Emerging Economies / Ed. by J. L. Lee, K. Lee, D. Meissner, S. Radosevic, N. Vonortas. Oxford University Press, 2021. doi
- Article Lee K., Malerba F., Primi A. The fourth industrial revolution, changing global value chains and industrial upgrading in emerging economies // Journal of Economic Policy Reform. 2020. Vol. 23. No. 4. P. 359-370. doi
- Article Park J., Ryu D., Lee K. What determines the economic size of a nation in the world: Determinants of a nation’s share in world GDP vs. per capita GDP // Structural Change and Economic Dynamics. 2019. Vol. 51. P. 203-214. doi
- Article Lee K., Szapiro M., Mao Z. From Global Value Chains (GVC) to Innovation Systems for Local Value Chains and Knowledge Creation // European Journal of Development Research. 2018. Vol. 30. No. 3. P. 424-441. doi
- Article Miao Y., Song J., Lee K., Jin C. Technological catch-up by east Asian firms: Trends, issues, and future research agenda // Asia Pacific Journal of Management. 2018. Vol. 35. No. 3. P. 639-669. doi
- Article Lee K., Malerba F. Catch-up cycles and changes in industrial leadership:Windows of opportunity and responses of firms and countries in the evolution of sectoral systems // Research Policy. 2017. Vol. 46. No. 2. P. 338-351. doi
Selected Articles in Journals
When an Importer's Protection of IPR Interacts with an Exporter's level of Technology: Comparing the Impacts on the Exports of the North and South (with Shin, W. Park) World Economy, 2015
Big Businesses and Economic Growth: Identifying binding constraints for Growth by Country panel analysis (with E Sanidas, B Kim, ) Journal of Comparative Economics, May 2013. Vol. 41 no 2: 561-82
Appropriate Intellectual Property Protection and Economic Growth in Countries at Different Levels of Development (with YK Kim, W. Park, K. Choo), Research Policy 41, no 2: 358-75.March 2012
Sectoral Systems of Innovations and Productivity Catch-up by the Korean firms with the Japanese firms (with M. Jung), Industrial and Corporate Change, July 2010
Determinants of Industry-Academy Linkages and Their Impacts on Firm Performance: Case of Korea as a Late-comer in Knowledge Industrialization (with B. Eom), Research Policy, 2010, vol;.39 (5): 625-639
Both institutions and Policies matter but differently at different income groups of countries: determinants of long run economic growth revisited (with BY Kim), World Development, March 2009, vol. 37, no 3: pp. 533-549
Explaining the “University-run Enterprises” in China: A New Theoretical Framework for University-Industry Relationship in developing countries and its Application to China (with J. Eun and G. Wu), Research Policy, vol. 35 no. 9: 1329-46, 2006
Linking Technological Regimes and Technological Catch-up: Analysis of Korea and Taiwan using the US patent data (with K. Park), Industrial and Corporate Change 15 (4): 715-53, 2006 (July)
Knowledge diffusion, market segmentation and technological catch-up: The case of the telecommunication industry in China (with Qing Mu), Research Policy, 34 (6): 759-83, Aug. 2005
Health Innovation Networks to Help Developing Countries Address Neglected Diseases (with Carlos M. Morel and others), Science Vol. 309, July 2005
Key Single-authored Books
Keun Lee, Schumpeterian Analysis of Economic Catch-up: Knowledge, Path-creation, and Middle Income Trap, Cambridge Univ. Press 2013. (Winner of 2014 Schumpeter Prize). Cited 272 times byGoogle Scholar, 18/09’ also published in Chinese by the Tsinghua Univ Press)
Keun Lee, Economic Catch-up and Technological Leapfrogging: A Path to Development in Korea, 2016, Edward Elgar.
Keun Lee, New East Asian Economic Development: Interacting Capitalism and Socialism. New York: M. E. Sharpe, November, 1993.
Keun Lee, Chinese Firms and the State in Transition: Property Rights and Agency Problems in the Reform Era, New York: M. E. Sharpe. 215 pages, 1991 (this is based on my Ph D thesis from the Univ. California, Berkeley)
Research projects
Research on the efficiency of innovation generation processes: resources and factors (HSE, 2021)
Measuring and modelling innovation in the context of evidence-based policymaking (HSE, 2020)
Measuring and modelling patterns of innovation activities: heterogeneity of actors (HSE, 2019)
Measuring and modelling patterns of innovation activities (HSE, 2018)
Participation in research events
Grants
Selected as the “National Scholar” in 2007 by the Ministry of Education., Korea, with the 5 Year Grant (26,000 $ /year)
Awarded the WCU (World Class University) Research Grant, National Research Foundation, Korea, 2009
Employment history
Director, Institute for China Studies, Seoul Nat’l Univ. (from July 2006 to 2008)
Consultant, Development Research Group, World Bank (August 2004 to August 2005)
Associate Professor, Seoul National University (From October 1997 to September 2002)
Assistant Professor, Seoul National University (From August 1992 to October 1997)
Visiting Scholar, University of California, Davis (from Jan 1999 to July 1999)
Lecturer in Economics, University of Aberdeen, U.K. (From Jan. 1992 to June 1992)
Research Fellow, East-West Center, Honolulu, USA (From July 1989 to Jan. 1992)