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Analyzing Innovation Performance in East Asia was created for the consideration of The Technopolicy Network (TPN) - regional innovation focused organization for its further expansion purposes. As the title indicates, The TPN's main interest area is East Asia. The paper's central question is:
Which East-Asian countries are the most attractive and essential for The Technopolicy Network to approach in order to promote its innovation and complement the network?
In order to answer this question, the research plan was applied that starts with generating the basic indicators of the innovation. This research resulted in selection of four factors as follow:
 Patents
 Economic Growth
 Venture Capital
 Standards of Living
Those indicators were fundamentals of choosing the top innovative East Asian countries. The collected data pointed out three leading countries: Japan, Singapore and South Korea. Those countries were further analyzed by collecting the literature studies considering their innovative performances and by using the standard TPN's Model for Regional Innovation Systems. The evaluation of the applied model indicated the best performing East Asian country in field of innovation-Japan. However, the model's indicators suggest as well that the national innovation strategies of those three countries are relatively diverse. In spite of their close geographical proximity, and their feature of small area and relatively large population, those countries have different national innovation strategies that all seem to be successful since they put them on the top of the continent's innovative nations. However, they all have weaknesses and they all can learn from each other and/or other regions of the world in order to keep this high rank and keep increasing the innovation performances. That is what makes them attractive for the TPN. Since Japan obtained the highest score, it should be approached by The TPN as first.