Selected Publications

Yap, X.-S., & Truffer, B. (2022). Contouring ‘earth-space sustainability’. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 44, 185-193. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2022.06.004

Yap, X.-S., & Kim, R. E. (2023). Towards earth-space governance in a multi-planetary era. Earth System Governance, 16, [100173]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esg.2023.100173   

Yap, X.-S., Janssen, M. A., Aganaba, T., Tutton, R., Korpershoek, K., Profitiliotis, G., Rabitz, F., Subbiah, M. S., & Wagenknecht, L. (2023). Four Alternative Scenarios of Commons in Space: Prospects and Challenges. International Journal of the Commons, 17(1), pp. 390–410. https://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.1272 

Yap, X.-S., Heiberg, J., Truffer, B. (2023). The emerging global socio-technical regime for tackling space debris: A discourse network analysis. Acta Astronautica, 207, 445-454. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2023.01.016 

Markard, J., Wells, P., Yap, X.-S. and van Lente, H. (2023). Unsustainabilities: A study on SUVs and Space Tourism and a research agenda for transition studies. Energy Research & Social Science, 106: 103302. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2023.103302 

Janssen, M. A., & Yap, X.-S. (2024). Governing Outer Space as a Commons is Critical for Addressing Commons on Earth. International Journal of the Commons, 18(1), pp. 32–38. https://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.1378  

Other Publications

David, E., Saada, A., Pecujlic, A.N., Strah, M., Yap, X.-S., Wood, D., Kneib, J.-P. (2025). Fostering multi-stakeholder collaboration for space sustainability through an incentive-based mechanism. Acta Astronautica. In press. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2025.06.029  

Christensen, I., David, E., Rabitz, F., Schmied, J., Yap, X.-S. (2025). Space Sustainability: Bridging Initiatives and Perspectives. Workshop Report, Secure World Foundation, Washington, D.C., United States. 

Truffer, B., Binz, C., Miorner, J., & Yap, X.-S. (2025). Bridging the Methodological Divide: Inspirations from Semantic Network Analysis for (Evolutionary) Economic Geography. Progress in Economic Geography. 3, 1: 100033. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.peg.2024.100033 

Yap, X.-S. & David, E. (2024).  Addressing earth-space sustainability: An incentive-based mechanism for satellite infrastructure under three scenarios by 2030. In: OECD Report on ‘The Economics of Space Sustainability: Delivering Economic Evidence To Guide Government Action’. Chapter 8, pp. 128-144. https://www.oecd.org/content/dam/oecd/en/publications/reports/2024/06/the-economics-of-space-sustainability_5236a39b/b2257346-en.pdf  

Yap, X.-S., Truffer, B., Li, D., & Heimeriks, G. (2022). Towards transformative leapfrogging. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 44, 226-244. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2022.07.003

Miörner, J., Truffer, B., Binz, C., Heiberg, J., & Yap, X.-S. (2022). Guidebook for applying the Socio-Technical Configuration Analysis method. (pp. 1-19). (GEIST Working Paper; Vol. 2022, No. 1). Geography of Innovation and Sustainability Transitions. https://geist-wp.com/guidebook-for-applying-the-socio-technical-configuration-analysis-method/

Yap, X.-S. (2021) Opportunities and Challenges of Space-based Infrastructures for Arctic Governance: Assessment from an Innovation System Perspective. In Kim, J.-D. and Morrison, C.E. (Eds.): Science, Technology and the Path Forward for a New Arctic, Chapter 17, p. 216 – 228. Busan and Hawaii: Korea Maritime Institute and East-West Center.

Markard, J., Wells, P., Lente, H., and Yap, X.-S. (2021) Neglected developments undermining sustainability transitions. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 41: 39-41. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2021.10.012

Binz, C., Gosens, J., Yap, X.-S. and Yu, Z. (2020) Catching-up in global innovation systems: A comparison of four Chinese cleantech industries. Industrial and Corporate Change 2020: 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1093/icc/dtaa020

Yap, X.-S., & Truffer, B. (2019). Shaping selection environments for industrial catch-up and sustainability transitions: A systemic perspective on endogenizing windows of opportunity. Research Policy, 48(4), 1030-1047. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2018.10.002

van Welie, M. J., Truffer, B., & Yap, X.-S. (2019). Towards sustainable urban basic services in low-income countries: A Technological Innovation System analysis of sanitation value chains in Nairobi. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 33, 196-214. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2019.06.002

Rasiah, R. and Yap, X.-S. (2019) How much of Raymond Vernon’s product cycle thesis is still relevant today: Evidence from the integrated circuits Industry. International Journal of Technological Learning, Innovation and Development 11(1): 56-77. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJTLID.2019.097435

Rasiah, R., Mubarik, S., & Yap, X.-S. (2017). Financing Technological Upgrading in East Asia. The Lahore Journal of Economics, 22(Special Edition), 153-182. https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:lje:journl:v:22:y:2017:i:sp:p:153-182
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Yap, X.-S., & Rasiah, R. (2017). The lost tiger: The technological learning case of Malaysian semiconductor firms. In A. Tsvetkova, J. Schmutzler, M. Suarez, & A. Faggian (Eds.), Innovation in Developing and Transition Countries: Learning, Collaboration and Public Policy (pp. 206-236). (New Horizons in Regional Science series). Edward Elgar Publishing.

Yap, X.-S., & Rasiah, R. (2017). Catching Up and Leapfrogging: The new latecomers in the integrated circuits industry. (Routledge Studies in Global Competition). Routledge.

Rasiah, R., Yap, X.-S., & Salih, K. (2017). Sub-national governments and technological upgrading in the integrated circuit cluster in Northern Malaysia. Innovation and Development, 7(2), 287-307. https://doi.org/10.1080/2157930X.2016.1261760

Yap, X.-S., & Rasiah, R. (2017). Catching up and leapfrogging in a high-tech manufacturing industry: towards a firm-level taxonomy of knowledge accumulation. Knowledge Management Research & Practice, 15(1), 114-129. https://doi.org/10.1057/kmrp.2015.21

Rasiah, R., Shahrivar, B., & Yap, X.-S. (2016). Institutional support, innovation capabilities and exports: Evidence from the semiconductor industry in Taiwan. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 109, 69-75. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2016.05.015

Rasiah, R., & Yap, X.-S. (2016). Institutions, regional trade linkages and technological capabilities in the semiconductor industry in Malaysia. Asia Pacific Business Review, 22(1), 165-179. https://doi.org/10.1080/13602381.2014.990210

Rasiah, R., & Yap, X.-S. (2016). Institutions, technological capabilities and domestic production linkages in the semiconductor industry in Singapore. Asia Pacific Business Review, 22(1), 180-192. https://doi.org/10.1080/13602381.2014.990213

Rasiah, R., Yap, X.-S., & Yap, S. F. (2015). Sticky spots on slippery slopes: the development of the integrated circuits industry in emerging East Asia. Institutions and Economies, 7(1), 52-79. https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:umk:journl:v:7:y:2015:i:1:p:52-79

Rasiah, R., Yap, X.-S., & Govindaraju, C. (2014). Crisis effects on the electronics industry in Southeast Asia. Journal of Contemporary Asia, 44(4), 645-663. https://doi.org/10.1080/00472336.2014.923637

Wong, C. Y., & Yap, X.-S. (2012). Mapping technological innovations through patent analysis: a case study of foreign multinationals and indigenous firms in China. Scientometrics, 91, 773-787. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-011-0595-3