7. Rethinking the Role of the State in Technology Development

Glenn R. Fong is an associate professor of global studies at Thunderbird School of Global Management. He is also the academic director of the school's Master of Arts in Global Affairs and Management. His areas of expertise include technology, global trade and industrial policies of the U.S., Japan and China, government and business relations and international political economy. Of Chinese-American ancestry, Fong has contributed commentaries and monographs to Business and Politics, Issues in Science and Technology, International Security, International Studies Quarterly, Comparative Politics, and the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. In 1996, Fong authored Export Dependence vs. the New Protectionism: Trade Policy in the Industrial World. He has served as a consultant to the National Academy of Sciences, the U.S. Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry (now METI), and IBM Corporation's e-Business Technology division. He earned his BA at the University of California, Berkeley, and MA and PhD degrees in government from Cornell University. Earlier in his career, he was an assistant professor at the University of Illinois-Chicago and a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard University's Graduate School of Business Administration.