Synopses & Reviews
Production and innovation activities are being re distributed across the world, as the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) are proving the major engine of global growth. Chapter authors take a close look at the information and communication technologies (ICTs) landscape, not only in two BRIC countries, India and China, but also in South Korea and Taiwan. They document the size of the ICT sector for each of the selected countries, and assess their R&D expenditure and its place in the international innovation network.
Synopsis
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.
- 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
About the Author
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.
Daniel Nepelski works at the Institute for Prospective Technologies (JRC-IPTS), European Commission, Directorate-General JRC. 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 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 US.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part 1 IT in emerging economies: Chindia: Information and communications technology sector in India; China
Part 2 The return of the dragons: South Korea; Taiwan
Part 3 Networks of ICT technology and innovation: Internationalization of ICT R&D: a comparative analysis of Asia, the EU, Japan, the U.S., and the RoW; Asia in the global ICT R&D network; Assessing India as a technology and innovation cooperation partner
Conclusion