Nam Hoang VU is an Associate Professor of Development Economics in the Faculty of International Economics at Foreign Trade University, Vietnam. He obtained his PhD degree in 2008 from the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Japan. His research interests include development economics, industrial development, industrial clusters, firm innovation, firm’s behaviour, and development of small and medium sized enterprises. His selected publications are in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, World Development, Journal of Comparative Economics, Empirical Economics...