Inside Story of China's High-Tech Industry (eBook)

Making Silicon Valley in Beijing

Yu Zhou (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2007
214 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4616-4451-4 (ISBN)

Infos

In the 1980s, China faced the monumental task of creating, from scratch, internationally competitive companies. This challenge was especially daunting in the information and communications technology sector. The Inside Story of China's High-Tech Industry describes the emergence and growth of this industry through an analysis of China's leading science park, Beijing's Zhongguancun. Zhou argues that, in the case of China, it is the conjunction of export and domestic markets that has provided the main impetus to technological learning and the development of industry competitiveness. This is the best treatment to date of China's most important innovation region.

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In the 1980s, China faced the monumental task of creating, from scratch, internationally competitive companies. This challenge was especially daunting in the information and communications technology (ICT) sector. The Inside Story of China's High-Tech Industry describes the emergence and growth of this industry in China through a historically situated analysis of China's leading science park, Beijing's Zhongguancun, also known as China's Silicon Valley. Zhou challenges the prevailing view that foreign multinational corporations and exports are the driving forces for technological progress in less developed countries by arguing that, in the case of China, it is the conjunction of domestic and export markets that has provided the main impetus to technological learning and the development of industry competitiveness. This is the best treatment to date of China's most important innovation region. It will be useful for scholars and students in the fields of economics, regional sciences, geography, planning, sociology, information technology, and business management, as well as for anyone interested in the rise of China and global technological development.

Autor

Yu Zhou is associate professor in the Department of Earth Science and Geography at Vassar College.

Inhalt

IntroductionChapter 1: Making Silicon Valley in China: ZhongguancunChapter 2: From Offspring to Rebel: The Birth of ZGC and the Transformation of China's Science and Technology Establishments, 1950s–1980sChapter 3: Foreign "Wolf" and Local "Lamb": Multinational Companies and Resurgence of ZGC in the 1990sChapter 4: The Internet and the Restructuring of ZGC, 1998–2003Chapter 5: The Anatomy of ZGC: The Domestic CompaniesChapter 6: The Dynamics of Internationalization in ZGCChapter 7: Grassroots Transnationals: Returnee EntrepreneursChapter 8: China's Technical Standard Strategies: Toward an Alternative PathConclusionReferences

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.12.2007
• Reihe/Serie: Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Themenwelt: Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Wirtschaftsinformatik
• Schlagworte: Asian Studies • China Studies
• ISBN-10: 1-4616-4451-8 / 1461644518
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4616-4451-4 / 9781461644514