Demographics and Innovation in the Asia-Pacific.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eggleston, Karen.

Contributor:

Park, Joon-Shik.

Shin, Gi-Wook.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Older people--Employment.

Older people.

Demography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Blue Ridge Summit : Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, 2021.

Summary:

Demographic transition, along with the economic and geopolitical re-emergence of Asia, are two of the largest forces shaping the twenty-first century, but little is known about the implications for innovation. The countries of East Asia have some of the oldest age structures on the planet: between now and 2050, the population that is age 65 and older will increase to more than one in four Chinese, and to more than one in three Japanese and Koreans. Other economies with younger populations, like India, face the challenge of fully harnessing the "demographic dividend" from large cohorts in the working ages. This book delves into how such demographic changes shape the supply of innovation and the demand for specific kinds of innovation in the Asia-Pacific. Social scientists from Asia and the United States offer multidisciplinary perspectives from economics, demography, political science, sociology, and public policy; topics range from the macroeconomic effects of population age structure, to the microeconomics of technology and the labor force, to the broader implications for human well-being. Contributors analyze how demography shapes productivity and the labor supply of older workers, as well as explore the aging population as consumers of technologies and drivers of innovations to meet their own needs, as well as the political economy of spatial development, agglomeration economies, urban-rural contrasts, and differential geographies of aging.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Tables and Figures

Abbreviations

Contributors

Preface

1. Demographics and Innovation in the Asia-Pacific: An Introduction

Demographics, Productivity, and the Labor Supply of Older Workers

2. Demographics and Productivity in Asia

3. Demographics and Innovation in China: Correlation or Causation?

4. Changing Cognitive Performance and Untapped Work Capacity of Older Persons in Japan

5. Sectoral Shift, Technological Change, and Older Labor: Evidence from the United States and Korea

Technology, Age Structure, and the Political Economy of Innovation

6. How Japan’s Aging Demographics Have Affected Pathways of Technological Development: Opportunities in AI, IA, and New IT Services

Appendix A

7. Technology for Agriculture Productivity in India: Innovation to Harness the Demographic Dividend

Appendix B

8. Population Aging, ICT Innovation, and Media Literacy in South Korea: ICT Access Among the Elderly and the Remaining Divides

9. Population Cliffs, Crisis of Local Society, and the Politics of Innovation in South Korea

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ISBN:

1-931368-66-X