Little is known about the impact of standards on the economic development of countries which are latecomers to industrial manufacturing and innovation. Standardization is regarded primarily as a technical issue, and hence receives only limited high-level policy support. However, technical...

The emergence of global corporate networks that integrate dispersed production, engineering, product development and research activities across geographic borders poses new challenges and opportunities for national industrial and innovation policies. This book is a collection of essays on...

China has become the largest and fastest growing semiconductor market in the world, absorbing 40% of the worldwide semiconductor shipments. For US semiconductor firms, nothing compares to the China market. China however faces a fundamental dilemma. As the world's leading exporter of electronic...

The paper argues that science, technology and innovation (STI) play a critical role in expediting transition to a sustainable mode of development. Latecomer nations suffer from several disadvantages as they attempt to catch-up with the technological leaders, but they can enjoy latecomer...

China is well-placed to avoid the so-called “middle-income trap” and to continue to converge towards the more advanced economies, even though growth is likely to slow from near double-digit rates in the first decade of this millennium to around 7% at the 2020 horizon. However, in order to...

In the last decade the Indian auto industry has shown increasing levels of technological sophistication and significant growth. The Indian auto industry consists of local firms with indigenous design and development capability, well established global brands and has marketing presence in Indian...

There is a keen interest across Asia in the potential advantages of America’s market-led system of voluntary standards and its contribution to the country’s superior innovation capacity. For its proponents, America’s decentralized, flexible, and bottom-up approach to standard-setting is a...

The paper examines the role of global technology sourcing, and its drivers and impacts in China’s integrated circuit (IC) design industry . IC design is one of the priority targets of China’s innovation policy, as codified especially in the “Strategic Emerging Industries” initiative. At...

The development of innovative enterprises in China and India has been hampered for a long time due to missing linkages between the research and enterprise sector and the predominant role of public research institutes. In order to increase the international competitiveness of enterprises, both...