《技术的飞跃》是一部符合时代精神的书。读者在该书的第一页就可以看到马来西亚副总理这样一段具有挑战性的话:“马来西亚现在已经意识到,真正要向工业化转变,就必须直接进入技术时代,因为过去那种按部就班的做法已经行不通了”。在过去的几年中,马来西亚政府一直对其工业战略进行了认真的反省。当然,制造工业部门正处在转变之中。一位马来西亚最富于创见和资历最深的经济学者所著的这本书研究了也许是马来西亚在八十年代所面临的最要害的经济政策问题。马来西亚的工业在七十年代发展得很快。它象其邻国一样开始认真地对待工业制品的出口。由于马来西亚拥有良好的社会基础设施和现有的企业家基础,它在政策上所采取 “Technological Leap” is a book in keeping with the spirit of the times. Readers on the first page of this book can see the challenging words of the Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister: “Malaysia now realizes that if it really wants to shift to industrialization, it must go directly to the technological era because the past-based practice of the past has been Will not work ”. In the past few years, the Malaysian government has been seriously reviewing its industrial strategy. Of course, the manufacturing industry is in the midst of a transformation. A book by one of the most creative and experienced economists in Malaysia examines perhaps the most devastating economic policy Malaysia faces in the 1980s. Malaysian industry developed rapidly in the seventies. Like its neighbors, it began to take the export of manufactured goods seriously. Because of its good social infrastructure and existing entrepreneurial base, Malaysia has taken a policy approach