The text deals with the position of small countries, defined as countries with populations under 16 million, in today's globalized world. Their advantages and disadvantages, but especially the opportunities that globalization offers these countries, are discussed. Small countries can overcome...

This paper categorizes the multiple-faced roles of the government in technology standardization in the catching-up contexts. It presents a case that China has developed a third generation (3G) of mobile system, TD-SCDMA, and deployed it in the Chinese market. The authors attribute the success of...

This paper analyzes the market and technological catching-up of latecomer firms in two IT service sectors from a sectoral systems of innovation (SSI) perspective. It finds that indigenous software firms in China have selected different learning and catch-up strategies in the different...