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This paper discusses the relationship between technological stock and per capita income in 15 countries of Latin America and 12 of East Asia and Southeast Asia in the period of 1996-2017. A neoclassical endogenous growth model is developed that includes, in addition to physical and human capital, national and foreign technological stock. The econometric estimation employs a static and dynamic panel data methodology. It is estimated that the different versions of technology, classified as national, imported and exclusive of foreign companies, in addition to human capital, favor per capita income. There are also differences in per capita income between the two groups of economies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This commentary is about new approaches, proposed by three scholars from East Asia, to address the globalization of Latin American Studies through networked-research and academic cooperation. Based on the institutionalization in the twenty-first century of Latin American Studies in East Asia and of Asian Studies in Latin America, there is a need to promote joint-research projects among academics on both sides of the Pacific with emphasis not only on economic and international relations but on broader studies that highlight the increasingly relevant global role of East Asia and Latin America. Initiatives like the East Asian Network of Latin American Studies and the Pacific Studies Research Center of the University of Guadalajara, which is presented here, can be exemplars of platforms to achieve such goals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]