DRIVERS AND INHIBITORS OF ASIAN INNOVATION

• Drivers:

  • High growth - local market demand can sustain development
  • Highly-educated workforce
  • Inexpensive labor pool

• Inhibitors:

  • Limited management skills and corporate governance
  • Rule of law; information transparency
  • Restrictive governmental environment
  • KEY: Access to sophisticated risk-tolerant private capital and liquid public markets for exit (importance of NASDAQ)

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