The Economic Geography of the IT Industry in the Asia Pacific Region

Philip Cooke is Director and Research Professor in Regional Development at the Centre for Advanced Studies, Cardiff University, UK. Glen Searle is Associate Professor in the School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management at the University of Queensland, Australia. Kevin O’Connor is Faculty Fellow in the School of Geography and Environmental Science at Monash University, Australia.

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