Summary Studies of Korea's Thin Film Transistor-Liquid Crystal Display (TFT-LCD) industry have emphasized the government policy, industrial organization, and the firm's strategy as key success factors. However, the fact that knowledge spillover, which tends to occur between highly...

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...

Catching up with the pioneers in Complex Product and System (CoPS) is not easy because CoPS is very different from the mass-produced goods in which latecomers have specialized. Despite being a latecomer, Korea has succeeded in CoPS, particularly in the telecommunication systems industry. This...

Purpose: This paper aims to investigate the pattern of technological capability building in the gas turbine industry as a complex product system (CoPS) in an Iranian gas turbine producer named Oil Turbo Compressor Company (OTC) and to recognize multi-level (firm, industry and national) drivers...