Keun Lee

Research.com Recognitions

• 2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Korea Leader Award
• 2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Korea Leader Award
• 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Korea Leader Award
• 2023 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Korea Leader Award
• 2022 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Korea Leader Award

Overview

Best Publications

• Technological regimes, catching-up and leapfrogging: findings from the Korean industries

  Keun Lee;Chaisung Lim

  1628
  Citations

• Human capital, social capital, and firm dissolution

  Johannes M. Pennings;Kyungmook Lee;Arjen Van Witteloostuijn

  1467
  Citations

• Schumpeterian Analysis of Economic Catch-up: Knowledge, Path-Creation, and the Middle-Income Trap

  Keun Lee

  677
  Citations

• Catch-up cycles and changes in industrial leadership:Windows of opportunity and responses of firms and countries in the evolution of sectoral systems ☆

  Keun Lee;Franco Malerba

  563
  Citations

• Knowledge diffusion, market segmentation and technological catch-up: The case of the telecommunication industry in China

  Qing Mu;Keun Lee

  502
  Citations

• Both Institutions and Policies Matter but Differently for Different Income Groups of Countries: Determinants of Long-Run Economic Growth Revisited

  Keun Lee;Byung-Yeon Kim

  464
  Citations

• Determinants of industry–academy linkages and, their impact on firm performance: The case of Korea as a latecomer in knowledge industrialization☆

  Boo-Young Eom;Keun Lee

  456
  Citations

• Appropriate intellectual property protection and economic growth in countries at different levels of development

  Yee Kyoung Kim;Keun Lee;Walter G. Park;Kineung Choo

  433
  Citations

• Explaining the “University-run enterprises” in China: A theoretical framework for university–industry relationship in developing countries and its application to China☆

  Jong-Hak Eun;Keun Lee;Guisheng Wu

  422
  Citations

• Health innovation networks to help developing countries address neglected diseases.

  Carlos Medicis Morel;Tara Acharya;Denis Broun;Ajit Dangi

  345
  Citations

• Making a Technological Catch-up: Barriers and Opportunities

  Keun Lee

  297
  Citations

• Linking the technological regime to the technological catch-up: analyzing Korea and Taiwan using the US patent data

  Kyoo-Ho Park;Keun Lee;Keun Lee

  287
  Citations

• Emerging Digital Technology as a Window of Opportunity and Technological Leapfrogging: Catch-up in Digital TV by the Korean Firms

  Keun Lee;Chaisung Lim;Wichin Song

  272
  Citations

• From diversification premium to diversification discount during institutional transitions

  Keonbeom Lee;Mike W. Peng;Keun Lee

  263
  Citations

• From Global Value Chains (GVC) to Innovation Systems for Local Value Chains and Knowledge Creation

  Keun Lee;Marina Szapiro;Zhuqing Mao

  196
  Citations

• Rise of latecomers and catch-up cycles in the world steel industry

  Keun Lee;Jee-hoon Ki

  177
  Citations

• Modern Evolutionary Economics: An Overview

  Richard R. Nelson;Giovanni Dosi;Constance E. Helfat;Andreas Pyka

  149
  Citations

• A history-friendly model of the successive changes in industrial leadership and the catch-up by latecomers

  Fabio Landini;Fabio Landini;Keun Lee;Franco Malerba

  146
  Citations

• How Can Korea be a Role Model for Catch-up Development? A ‘Capability-based View’

  Keun Lee

  145
  Citations

• Sectoral systems of innovation and productivity catch-up: determinants of the productivity gap between Korean and Japanese firms

  Moosup Jung;Keun Lee

  139
  Citations

• Schumpeterian Analysis of Economic Catch-up

  Keun Lee

  109
  Citations

• Modern Evolutionary Economics

  Richard R. Nelson;Giovanni Dosi;Constance E. Helfat;Andreas Pyka

  97
  Citations

• Schumpeterian Analysis of Economic Catch-up: Catching up and leapfrogging in China and India

  Keun Lee

  0
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