Asia in the Global ICT Innovation Network

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-0-85709-470-4
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Technology

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 594 g

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, 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Prato, Giuditta De

De Prato, Giuditta

Nepelski, Daniel

Simon, Jean

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Wirtschaftsinformatik, SAP, IT-Management
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Forschung & Entwicklung (F&E), Innovation

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Nepelski, Daniel
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.

De Prato, Giuditta
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.

Simon, Jean
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.

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 also worked in the industry as a software developer and IT consultant from 1992 to 2005. From 2005 to 2009, she focused on research activities on local development, evaluation, ICT and open source at the University of Bologna.

Daniel Nepelski also works at the Institute for Prospective Technologies (JRC-IPTS), European Commission, Directorate-General JRC. Daniel worked at DIW Berlin, the German Institute for Economic Research, as a research associate and policy consultant between 2002 and 2008. His research interests are in the area of Industrial Organization with a particular focus on Innovation Economics and Competition Policy.

Jean Paul Simon runs his own consulting company. He worked as a senior scientist at the IPTS, from 2010 to 2012, on ICT in BRIC 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. He has written several books and articles on communications and public policy, and is a frequent speaker on telecommunications and media in Asia, Europe and the USA.

Contributors include: Shin-Horng Chen; Sangwon Ko; Payal Malik; and Yang Yang.