The Economic Geography of the IT Industry in the Asia Pacific Region (Hardcover)

Preface  1. The IT Industry in the Asia Pacific Region: Heritage, context and future Phil Cooke, Glen Searle and Kevin O’Connor  Part I: The New Global Context  2. Resilience and Eco-innovation: The role of commoditised ICT in global transition regions Phil Cooke  Part II: National Perspectives on the Asia Pacific IT Industry in a Global Context  3. New Outcomes for Firms in the Australian IT Industry Glen Searle and Kevin O’Connor  4. Singapore’s ICT industry: An evolutionary perspective Leo van Grunsven  5. IT Industry with Chinese Characteristics Yu Zhou  6.  Industrial Upgrading and Global Innovation Networks: The case of the Taiwanese ICT industry Shin-Horng Chen and Pei-Chang Wen  7. IT Entrepreneurship in Japan: Challenges of servicization Yuko Aoyama   Part III: Sectoral Responses to Global Change  8. The Role of the State in Promoting the Display Industry in South Korea Yong-Sook Lee and Hyungjoo Kim  9. The Catching-Up Process and Innovation in the Chinese Telecommunication Industry Xielin Liu and Jianghua Zhou  10. China’s Good-Enough Innovation: Shanzhai handsets and shanzhai economy Shin-Horng Chen, Pei-Chang Wen, and Chih-Yen Tai  11. The Spatial Distribution and Structure of Partnership Network of Firms in the Software Industry in Korea Il Young Hong  12. A Geography of Innovation in Isolation? Knowledge spillover, technology transfer, and innovation of firms in China’s software industry Cassandra Wang and George Lin  Part IV: Regional and Local Responses to Global Change  13. An Increasingly Innovative Quarter Century: Bangalore within the global production networks of the software industry Balaji Parthasarathy  14. Localising Production of the Globalised Knowledge Enclaves: Role of the sub-national states in development of the IT- ITES oriented special economic zones of India Tathagata Chatterji  15. Institutional "Embeddedness", Networks and China’s IT Industry: An analysis of Dalian’s software park Weilin Zhao, Charla Griffy-Brown and Chihiro Watanabe