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    Kattel, Rainer

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    Intersection Thesis and Pathways for AI-Prosperity Alignment in the Global South: An Examination of AI for Good in Thailand

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    This thesis explores how AI for Good is conceived and pursued within the Global South, specifically in the context of Thailand. The research introduces a novel framework of three intersections where notions of the “South” and “Good” in AI converge: the traditional intersection, where AI is viewed as a tool for national competitiveness; the hybrid intersection, which adopts a human-centred approach to AI; and the transformative intersection, which reimagines AI as a means of emancipation from the status quo. Through an in-depth analysis of Thailand's AI landscape, governance mechanisms, and specific initiatives, the research reveals the tensions between economic imperatives and social good in AI development and deployment. The study proposes the concept of AI-Prosperity Alignment as a new evaluative framework to examine the potential of AI in promoting holistic well-being, justice, and resilience within ecological boundaries. Findings indicate that while Thailand exhibits elements of all three intersections, it faces significant challenges in achieving a transformative approach to AI due to limited multivocality and policy objectives primarily focused on enhancing economic growth and national competitiveness. This research contributes to bridging the gap between AI for the Global South and AI for Good discourses, offering insights into the contextual factors shaping AI trajectories in developing nations and advocating for more inclusive, emancipatory approaches to AI governance and implementation

    Innovation Policy and Development in the ICT Paradigm: Regional and Theoretical Perspectives

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    Innovation policy forms a foundation, and probably the most important one, of economic development in any society, especially in today’s society driven by information and communication technologies (ICT). The Schumpeterian processes of creative destruction need stewardship – creative destruction management – and this paper aims to explore some key aspects of innovation policies from the perspective of the current ICT paradigm. The basic feature of the latter is the trend towards globalisation, towards facilitation of heterogeneity, diversity, and adaptability, which leads to market segmentation and niche proliferation as well as to production disaggregation and segment relocation. Analysis of innovation policies of the Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries shows that their current national innovation system based innovation policies are lacking several crucial features. First, one of the central arguments of creative-destruction management is paradigm-based, activity-specific priority-setting, but such wide-scale selection mechanisms have been and are still missing, and currently innovation policies by themselves can not lead to economic restructuring. Second, the whole concept of innovation systems has to a large extent focused on activities related to the production and use of codified scientific and technical knowledge leading to the situation where existing policies have essentially nothing to do with the average companies. Third, the current paradigm is characterised by globalised and open financial markets which, in case of the CEE countries, have enforced speculative economic growth, fuelled by domestic consumption and based on foreign borrowing. Finally, while the state is generally considered an important factor influencing how concrete innovation systems develop, linkages to policymaking itself and administrative capacities are quite missing and need to be revived, including the reconsideration of governance.innovation, economic development, innovation policy, ICT Paradigm, open innovation, governance, dissertations,
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