
Lee, Keun
Email : keunlee7@cau.ac.kr
Phone : +82-2-820-5539
Room : 1102 Centennial
Personal Webpage : http://www.keunlee.com
Education
Ph. D. in Economics, University of California, Berkeley, USA. (1989 )
(with Dr. Laura Tyson as main advisor).
B.A. in Economics, Seoul National University (Feb. 1983)
Experience
Professor, Seoul National University (From August 1992 to February 2025)
Research Interests
Innovation and Development; Economics of catch-up,
Economics of Innovation and S&T policy;
Industry studies (high-tech, steel, ships, and renewable energies)
Corporate Organization and growth;
Area Studies (South and North Koreas, China, Japan, Taiwan, India; other developing countries)
Selected Publications
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
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, 173–200 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43253-024-00117-1. 2024 Best Paper Award by the REPE.
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
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.
Junhee Han, and Keun Lee (2022), “Heterogeneous Technology and Specialization for Economic Growth beyond the Middle-Income Stage,” Economic Modelling, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2022.105853
Lee, Keun, J. Lee, & J. Lee (2021), “Variety of National Innovation Systems (NIS) and Alternative Pathways to Growth beyond the Middle-Income Stage” World Development (IF=3.9): doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105472
Lee, J. and Keun Lee (2021), “Is 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.
Malerba, F. and Keun Lee (2021). An Evolutionary Perspective on Economic Catch-up by Latecomers, Industrial and Corporate Change. doi: 10.1093/icc/dtab008
Lee, Keun & H. Shin (2021) “Varieties of capitalism and East Asia: Long-term evolution, structural change, and the end of East Asian capitalism,” Structural Changes and Economic Dynamics, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.strueco. 2018.06.006.
Courses
Theory of Economic Development (Graduate)