Making IT
Subtitle: the rise of Asia in high tech
By: edited by Henry S. Rowen, Marguerite Gong Hancock, and William F. Miller
Contributors: Rowen, Henry S; Hancock, Marguerite Gong; Miller, William F; Stanford Project on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780804753852; 9780804753869
Subjects: High technology industries -- Asia; Information technology -- Economic aspects -- Asia
Description: 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 Parks 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.
Notes: "Stanford Project on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SPRIE)."

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