Industrial innovation with ma thinking
lessons from Singapore's economic development
pp. 103-124
in: Mitsuru Kodama (ed), Ma theory and the creative management of innovation, Berlin, Springer, 2017Abstract
The promotion of a convergence of various industries rather than a development of individual industries as separate entities is an enlightened industrial policy. Synergy may be derived from the various industries and significant economic growth can follow. In this chapter, the author begins by analyzing the correlation between creative cities and cultural industries, then explores the rationale of the Singapore government in its commitment to fostering the development of creative industries to generate high added value. Singapore's cultural industry policy in the 2000s is analyzed and the correlation of the formation of creative Ba and Ma thinking is discussed.