Making IT : the rise of Asia in high tech

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Making IT : the rise of Asia in high tech

edited by Henry S. Rowen, Marguerite Gong Hancock, and William F. Miller

Stanford University Press, 2007

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  • : pbk

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Making IT : Asia's rise in high tech

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"Stanford Project on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SPRIE)"

Includes bibliographical references (p. [359]-375) and index

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In 2003, consumption of IT goods worldwide was $1.5 trillion. Asia represented twenty percent of this total. Even more telling, Asia produced about forty percent of these goods. The continued rise of Asian IT innovation will pose a challenge to the eminence of traditional IT centers, notably Silicon Valley. Making IT examines the causes as well as the major consequences of the dramatic rise of Asia in this industry. The book systematically analyzes each country's policies and results, on both a national level and, more importantly, in the innovation regions that have developed in each country: Japan's excellence in technology and manufacturing skills; Bangalore, India's late start and sudden explosion; Taiwan's Hsinchu Science-based Park's entrepreneurship and steady growth; Korea's Teheren Valley's impressive development of large companies; Singapore's initial reliance on multinational firms and its more recent switch to a home-developed strategy; and China's Zhongguancun Science Park's encouragement of investment from foreign firms while also promoting a domestic IT industry. The book outlines the difficulties in the IT industry, including Japan's tendency to keep out most foreign firms and China's poor protection of intellectual property. Developed by the team that brought readers The Silicon Valley Edge, Making IT analyzes why this region has an advantage in this industry, the similarities and differences in the countries' strategies, why companies have clustered in specific localities, and most important, what will be changing in the coming years. Making IT should leave no doubt that the United States and other countries competing in the global economy will face enormous challenges-and opportunities-responding to the rise of an innovative Asia.

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CONTENTS CONTRIBUTOR BIOGRAPHIES Chapter 1: Overview HENRY ROWEN PART I: The Early Developer: Japan Chapter 2: Stability and Change in the Japanese System KEN-ICHI IMAI Chapter 3: Japan Actually has Start-ups NOBORU MAEDA Appendices: Japanese clusters TORU TANIGAWA YASUHISA YAMAGUCHI PART II: Three Asian IT Tigers Taiwan Chapter 4: Hsinchu: Asia's Pioneering high Tech Park CHINTAY SHIH, KUNG WANG, YI-LING WEI Singapore Chapter 5: The Re-Making of Singapore's High Tech Enterprise Ecosystem POH KAM WONG South Korea Chapter 6: The Tale of Two Valleys: Daeduk and Teheran ZONG-TAE BAE, JUN-WOO BAE, JONG-GIE KIM, KARK BUM LEE, SANG-MOK SUH, SAM OCK PARK PART III: The Recent Arrival of Two Giants China Chapter 7: Zhonggcuancun: China's Pioneering High-Tech Cluster MULAN ZHAO India Chapter 8: Entrepreneurship: The True Story behind Indian IT RAFIQ DOSSANI PART IV: Some Common Themes Chapter 9: How Governments Shaped their IT Industries HENRY S. ROWEN Chapter 10: Venture Capital in Asia MARTIN KENNEY, KYONGHEE HAN, SHOKO TANAKA Chapter 10: Universities and Industries Exchange Technologies in America and Asia JON SANDELIN Concluding Remarks: THE EDITORS Index

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