Technological Capabilities and Export Success in Asia (Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia)

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Tables and figures......Page 10
Contributors......Page 12
Preface......Page 13
Acknowledgements......Page 16
Introduction......Page 17
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 18
I TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: A REVIEWOF EARLIER DEBATES......Page 20
II KEY ASPECTS OF THE INNOVATION PROCESS: A FOCUS ONLEARNING AND KNOWLEDGE ACCUMULATION......Page 27
III DEFINING TECHNOLOGICAL CAPABILITIES......Page 32
Production......Page 33
Investment......Page 34
Strategic marketing......Page 35
Linkage......Page 36
Major change......Page 37
Awareness and macroeconomic stability......Page 39
Policy dynamics......Page 41
Factor markets......Page 42
Industry structure and patterns of competition......Page 44
Changing technological capability requirements......Page 45
Catching up strategies......Page 47
Keeping up: technology diversification strategies......Page 48
VI ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES TO TECHNOLOGICAL CAPABILITY FORMATION......Page 50
The role of domestic technology networks......Page 51
NOTES......Page 52
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 55
I INTRODUCTION......Page 62
Historical background......Page 63
The macroeconomic environment and the incentive system......Page 65
The development and status of the Taiwanese textile industry......Page 67
The development and status of the Taiwanese electronics industry......Page 75
Personal connections......Page 80
Overseas Chinese......Page 84
Foreign direct investments......Page 85
Factors which are unique to the electronics industry......Page 86
Factors which are unique to the textile industry......Page 89
The electronics industry......Page 94
The textile industry......Page 96
V CONCLUSIONS......Page 99
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 101
I INTRODUCTION......Page 104
Policy dynamics......Page 105
Historical practices of firms......Page 108
Crises and adjustment......Page 109
II THE KOREAN TEXTILE AND APPAREL INDUSTRY......Page 111
The growth of production and export......Page 112
Building production, investment, marketing and minor change capabilities......Page 113
Policy dynamics, historical practices of firms and the failure to modernize......Page 117
Meeting the new competitive requirements......Page 123
III THE KOREAN ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY......Page 128
The growth of production and exports......Page 129
Government policies......Page 132
Firm strategies and industrial structure......Page 139
Building technological capabilities the Korean way......Page 142
Weaknesses in the Korean innovation system and the challenge of getting ahead in electronics......Page 151
IV CONCLUSIONS......Page 155
NOTES......Page 158
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 166
I INTRODUCTION......Page 174
Import-substitution industrialization (1957–1971)......Page 176
Export promotion and structural adjustment (1972–1985)......Page 177
Export boom and the influx of direct foreign investment (1986–1992)......Page 178
Structure of the textile and clothing industries......Page 179
Effects of the incentive system on duality and linkages within the textile andclothing industries......Page 182
Effects of the incentive system on export performance......Page 183
Structure of the electronics industry......Page 185
Effects of the incentive system on industrial structure......Page 190
Effects of the incentive system on export performance......Page 192
Investment and production capabilities......Page 194
Minor change capabilities......Page 200
Marketing capabilities......Page 201
The electronics industry......Page 203
Investment and production capabilities......Page 204
Minor change capabilities......Page 206
V NEW CHALLENGES TO SUSTAINED EXPORT SUCCESS......Page 209
Adjustments by textile and clothing firms......Page 210
Meeting new challenges in the electronics industry......Page 214
VI CONCLUSIONS......Page 217
NOTES......Page 222
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 224
I INTRODUCTION......Page 227
Development of the textile and garment industries......Page 231
Industrial structure and competition......Page 237
Impact of the incentive system on electronics......Page 238
III TECHNOLOGICAL CAPABILITY FORMATION AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO EXPORTS OVER TIME......Page 243
Textile firms......Page 247
Garment firms......Page 254
Impact of the incentive system on the pattern of technological capability (TC)formation......Page 257
Textile firms......Page 260
Garment firms......Page 261
Basic characteristics of the firms interviewed......Page 262
Consumer electronics......Page 263
Components and industrial electronics......Page 265
The impact of the incentive system on the pattern of technological capacity formation......Page 267
Strengths and weaknesses......Page 269
Textile firms......Page 270
Garment firms......Page 272
Consumer electronic firms......Page 273
Components and industrial electronics......Page 276
V CONCLUSIONS......Page 277
NOTES......Page 279
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 280
I AN OVERVIEW OF VIETNAM’S DEVELOPMENT: STAGES OF INDUSTRIALIZATION......Page 282
Textiles and clothing......Page 287
Major features of the industry’s development......Page 296
III PATTERNS OF BUILDING TECHNOLOGICAL CAPABILITIES IN THE TEXTILE AND GARMENT AND THE ELECTRONICS INDUSTRIES......Page 302
Textile and garment companies......Page 303
Pattern 1: companies established before 1975......Page 305
Pattern 2: companies established in the period 1976–1986......Page 309
Pattern 3: companies established after 1986......Page 314
Electronics companies......Page 316
Pattern 1: companies established before 1986......Page 317
Pattern 2: companies established after 1986......Page 320
Conclusions......Page 325
IV NEW CHALLENGES TO SUSTAINED EXPORT PERFORMANCE......Page 328
NOTES......Page 333
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 336
7 Learning, technological capability building and sustainable export growth......Page 338
I RECONCEPTUALIZING THE TECHNOLOGY CAPABILITY BUILDING PROCESS......Page 339
II THE IMPORTANCE OF FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT INTECHNOLOGY CAPABILITY BUILDING......Page 340
III POLICY DYNAMICS AND THE PROMOTION OF EXPORTS......Page 342
IV THE ROLE OF TECHNOLOGICAL CAPABILITIES INSUSTAINING EXPORT SUCCESS......Page 344
V TECHNOLOGY CAPABILITY BUILDING AS A NON-LINEAR, INTERACTIVE PROCESS......Page 346
VI DOMESTIC MARKETS AS A STIMULUS TOTECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE......Page 348
NOTES......Page 349
Index......Page 350