High-Tech Industries, Employment and Global Competitiveness (Hardcover, New)

1. Introduction S.R. Hashim and N.S. Siddharthan  Section 1: Global Competitiveness  2. Software and Hardware Firms in India and China: How they Differ Stanley Nollen and N.S. Siddharthan  3. Small Firms in Indian Software Clusters: Building Global Competitiveness Aya Okada  4. Technology Acquisition and Competitiveness: Evidence from the Indian IT Industry K. Narayan  5. China’s Pharmaceutical Industry: Multinational Enterprises and Regional Agglomeration Haiyan Zhang and Daniel Van Den Bulcke  6. An Analysis of Sourcing and Sales Strategies of Foreign Subsidiaries in the South of China Filip De Beule, Daniel Van Den Bulcke and Luodan Xu  7. Small Islands, New Technologies and Globalisation: A Case of ICT Adoption by SMEs in Mauritius Kaushalesh Lal  Section 2: Employment  8. MNEs, Product Differentiation, Skills and Employment: Lessons from the Indian Experience B.L. Pandit and N.S. Siddharthan  9. Imported Technology and Employment: Evidence from Panel Data on Indian Manufacturing Firms Atsushi Kato and Arup Mitra  10. Employment Profile of the ICT Sector in India Sandip Sarkar and Balwant Singh Mehta  Section 3: Science and Technology - A Perspective  11. Scientific Developments: A Vision G. Baskaran  12. Investing in a Technology-rich Future P.V. Indiresan