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<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div>Lee, Keun<\/h3>\n
Email : keunlee7@cau.ac.kr Ph. D. in Economics, University of California, Berkeley, USA. (1989 ) Professor, Seoul National University (From August 1992 to February 2025)<\/div> Innovation and Development; Economics of catch-up, Keun Lee, Innovation-Development Detours: Managing global-local interfaces in the de-globalization era. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2024\/02 (open access); https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/9781009456234<\/p>\n Lee, K., Kim, D.K. Compressed development, decompression, and diverging convergence in South Korea: which varieties of capitalism in contemporary Korea?. Rev Evol Polit Econ 5, 173\u2013200 (2024). https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s43253-024-00117-1<\/a>. 2024 Best Paper Award by the REPE.<\/p>\n J. Lee & Keu Lee, (2024:, Decoupling of Functional and Household Income Distribution by Economic Growth: New Findings from analysing the Three-way Growth-Equity Nexus, Journal of International Development, DOI: 10.1002\/jid.3903<\/p>\n Lee, Keun, (2024) Economics of Technology Cycle Time (TCT) and catch-up by Latecomers: micro-, meso-, and macro-analyses and implications. Journal of Evolutionary Economics. DOI : 10.1007\/s00191-024-00847-9.<\/p>\n Junhee Han, and Keun Lee (2022), \u201cHeterogeneous Technology and Specialization for Economic Growth beyond the Middle-Income Stage,\u201d Economic Modelling, 2022, https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.econmod.2022.105853<\/a><\/p>\n Lee, Keun, J. Lee, & J. Lee (2021), \u201cVariety of National Innovation Systems (NIS) and Alternative Pathways to Growth beyond the Middle-Income Stage\u201d World Development (IF=3.9): doi: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.worlddev.2021.105472<\/a><\/p>\n Lee, J. and Keun Lee (2021), \u201cIs 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 : doi no: 10.1093\/icc\/dtaa059.<\/p>\n Malerba, F. and Keun Lee (2021). An Evolutionary Perspective on Economic Catch-up by Latecomers, Industrial and Corporate Change. doi: 10.1093\/icc\/dtab008<\/p>\n
\nPhone : +82-2-820-5539
\nRoom : 1102 Centennial
\nPersonal Webpage : http:\/\/www.keunlee.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Education and Professional Experience<\/h4><\/a><\/li>
Research and Teaching<\/h4><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>
Education<\/h5>\n
\n(with Dr. Laura Tyson as main advisor).
\nB.A. in Economics, Seoul National University (Feb. 1983)<\/p>\nExperience<\/h5>\n
Research Interests<\/h5>\n
\nEconomics of Innovation and S&T policy;
\nIndustry studies (high-tech, steel, ships, and renewable energies)
\nCorporate Organization and growth;
\nArea Studies (South and North Koreas, China, Japan, Taiwan, India; other developing countries)<\/p>\nSelected Publications<\/h5>\n