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- 1st Edition - July 31, 2013
- Editors: Giuditta De Prato, Daniel Nepelski, Jean Simon
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 8 5 7 0 9 - 4 7 0 - 4
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 1 0 1 5 9 5 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 8 5 7 0 9 - 4 7 1 - 1
Production and innovation activities are being re-distributed across the world. The BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) are proving the major engine of global growth,… Read more
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Request a sales quoteProduction and innovation activities are being re-distributed across the world. The BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) are proving the major engine of global growth, being less impacted by the financial crisis than developed economies or able to recover more quickly. Asia in the Global ICT Innovation Network takes a close look at the information and communication technologies (ICTs) landscape, not only in two BRICS countries, India and China, but also in South Korea and Taiwan. The book documents the size of the ICT sector for each of the selected countries, and assesses their R&D expenditure and its place in the international innovation network. The selected countries play a major role in shifting patterns of international trade and global value chains. The countries offer different historical profiles, with reforms dating back from the nineties for “Chindia” and earlier policies for the “dragons”, with later reforms focusing on IT. The book accounts for their specificity, and emphasises the fact that the four countries have achieved impressive results in terms of economic growth. The ICT sector was a major contributor to this growth and led a pioneering role for other sectors.This title consists of three parts: ICT in emerging economies, covering China and India; the return of the dragons, covering South Korea and Taiwan; and Network knowledge and trade, covering regional networks of R&D centres, India as an S&T cooperation partner, Asian countries in the global production network, and Asia in the process of internationalisation of ICT and R&D.
- Provides a well-supported look at the ICT sector in Asia, an area where extant literature consists mostly in a scattering of articles in various and heterogeneous journals
- Focuses on innovation
- Speaks to a growing interest in the role of emerging countries in ICT innovation
Policy makers in the area of science, technology and innovation; Those interested in economics, economic geography and innovation studies
List of figures
List of tables
List of abbreviations
Glossary
Acknowledgments
Preface
About the authors
About the contributors
Introduction
Chindia
The dragons
R&D expenditures
FDI-led ICT R&D
ICT R&D offshoring
Output: patent
Networks of ICT technology and innovation
Notes
Part 1: IT in Emerging Economies: Chindia
Chapter 1: Information and communications technology sector in India
Chapter 2: China
Abstract:
The size of the ICT sector
ICT R&D expenditures
The major ICT players
Conclusion
Part 2: The Return of the Dragons
Chapter 3: South Korea
Abstract:
Introduction
Size of ICT sector
ICT R&D expenditures, patents, and globalization of ICT sector
Korean ICT sector: company-level perspective
Conclusion
Chapter 4: Taiwan
Abstract:
Introduction
The size of the ICT sector
R&D expenditure
The Taiwanese ICT sector: company-level perspective
Conclusions
Part 3: Networks of ICT Technology and Innovation
Chapter 5: Internationalization of ICT R&D: a comparative analysis of Asia, the EU, Japan, the U.S., and the RoW
Abstract:
Introduction
Asia and the internationalization of R&D
Disentangling the R&D value chain
Data on the input and output of ICT R&D
Internationalization of ICT R&D input
Internationalization of ICT R&D output: patents-based evidence
The case of Asia
Conclusions
Chapter 6: Asia in the global ICT R&D network
Abstract:
Introduction
Data
Characteristics of the international R&D center network
The determinants of international R&D linkage
Conclusions
Appendix
Chapter 7: Assessing India as a technology and innovation cooperation partner
Abstract:
Introduction
A framework for assessing technology and innovation cooperation partners
Data and elaboration of patent-based indicators
Assessing India as an innovation collaboration partner
Conclusions
Chapter 8: Conclusion
Role of public policies and public sectors
Changing global production and innovation networks: Asia on the rise
Imbalance and weaknesses: catching up
Asian countries in the global production network
References
Index
- No. of pages: 296
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: July 31, 2013
- Imprint: Chandos Publishing
- Hardback ISBN: 9780857094704
- Paperback ISBN: 9780081015957
- eBook ISBN: 9780857094711
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Giuditta De Prato
Giuditta De Prato works at the Institute for Prospective Technologies (JRC-IPTS), European Commission, Directorate-General JRC, the in-house Think Tank of the European Commission, supporting the EU policy-making process by developing science-based responses to the dynamically-changing innovation landscape. She worked at the university of Bologna and in the industry as a software developer and IT consultant.
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Daniel Nepelski
Daniel Nepelski also works at the Institute for Prospective Technologies (JRC-IPTS). Daniel worked at DIW Berlin, the German Institute for Economic Research, as a research associate and policy consultant. His background is economics and the main fields of interest include innovation economics, technological change and networks and complex systems.
Affiliations and expertise
European Commission, Directorate-General JRCJS
Jean Simon
Jean Paul Simon runs his own consulting company. He worked as a senior scientist at the IPTS, on ICT in BRICS countries, as well as on the economics of the media and content industries and the impact of digitization. He has held senior positions in the telecom industry.
Affiliations and expertise
JPS Public Policy, Sevilla, SpainRead Asia in the Global ICT Innovation Network on ScienceDirect