Keun Lee

Winner of the 2014 Schumpeter Prize

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

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)

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 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)

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

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)