Upgrading China's Information and Communication Technology Industry : State-Firm Strategic Coordination and the Geography of Technological Innovation.
This book effectively challenges the conventional wisdom regarding the cluster-innovation relationship and provides convincing evidence to show that the prevailing theoretical models derived from Anglo-American experiences cannot be uncritically applied to Chinese reality. This book introduces a new...
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World Scientific Pub. Co.,
2012
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations; Chapter One Introduction; 1.1 Research Background; 1.2 The Case of China's ICT Industry; 1.3 Theory and Reality; 1.4 Understanding the Uneven Innovative Performance of the ICT Industry in China; 1.5 Terminology; 1.6 Organization of the Book; Chapter Two Interpreting Technological Innovation Through Industrial Clustering; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Industrial Cluster and Technological Innovation: Is There a Relationship?; 2.2.1 The origins of innovation and cluster.
- 2.2.2 Framework of localized production network2.2.3 Framework of innovative milieu; 2.2.4 Framework of knowledge spillover; 2.2.5 A critique; 2.3 Summary; Chapter Three Understanding China's Technological Innovation Through State-Firm Strategic Coordination; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Defining Major Concepts: State, Firm and State-Firm Strategic Coordination; 3.3 Theorizing the Innovative Performance of Regions and Firms: A State-Firm Strategic Coordination Framework; 1. The dynamics of state-firm strategic coordination reflect the active motivation of firms to invest in innovation.
- 2. State-firm strategic coordination enlarges the resource base of firms and thereby improves their innovative performance3.4 Explaining the Innovative Performance of China's ICT Industry through State-Firm Strategic Coordination; 3.4.1 State-firm strategic coordination before the reform and opening-up in China; (1) Strategic Selectivity of the State and the National Innovation System; (2) Passive Reaction of Firms; 3.4.2 State-firm strategic coordination after the reform and opening-up in China; (1) The Rise of China and State Strategies for Technical Standard-Setting.
- (2) Strategic Selectivity, Reaction of Firms and Regional Differences in State-Firm Coordination3.5 Summary; Chapter Four The Geography of Technological Innovation in China's ICT Industry; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Historicizing the Growth and Innovation of China's ICT Industry; 4.3 Growth and Nature of China's ICT Industry; 4.4 Spatial Distribution, Clustering and Technological Innovation; 4.4.1 Spatial Agglomeration and Economic and Innovative Performance; 4.4.2 Localized linkages, knowledge exchange and technological innovation.
- 4.4.3 Beyond clustering: Attributes, motivation and strategies of firms, state-firm strategic coordination and technological innovation4.5 Summary; Chapter Five State-Firm Strategic Coordination and the Growth of the Integrated Circuit Design Industry in Shanghai; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Growth, Distribution and Innovation of the IC Design Industry in Shanghai; 5.3 State-Firm Strategic Coordination and Uneven Technological Innovation in Shanghai; 5.3.1 Strategies and selectivity of the central government; 5.3.2 Institutional environment as well as strategies and selectivity of local governments.
