Accumulating Education and Experience in a Global Economy: Foreign Direct Investment, National S&T Strategies, and Indigenous Innovation in Asian Development William Lazonick Center for Industrial Competitiveness University of Massachusetts Lowell william_lazonick@uml.edu March 2009 This paper draws on chapter five in my forthcoming book, Sustainable Prosperity in the New Economy?: Business Organization and High-Tech Employment in the United States , Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2009. An earlier and much abridged version of this paper appeared as “Globalization of the ICT Labor Force,” in Robin Mansell, Christanthi Avgerou, Danny Quah, and Roger Silverstone, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Information and Communication Technologies , Oxford University Press: 75-99. I would like to thank Bob Bell, Isa Cann, He Gao, Mustafa Erdem Sakinc, Öner Tulum, and Yue Zhang for research assistance.