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Keeping pace with globalisation innovation capability in Korea's telecommunications equipment industry

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  • Sunil Mani

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Korea is one of the four from the developing world to have built up substantial innovation capability in the design and manufacture of state-of-the-art telecommunications equipments. The paper undertakes a detailed review of this innovation capability and analyses its precise status during the time when the Korean economy was subject to a serious financial crisis. The paper maps out the sectoral system for innovation in the telecommunications equipment industry and measures the innovation capability in terms of a set of three separate indicators. The ensuing analysis shows that the country has built up substantial innovation capability in not just fixed telephony but also in mobile communication technologies. There has been some passage of this capability from the public research laboratory to private sector manufacturing firms. The Korean state has continued to support the public laboratory through a variety of financial grants and public technology procurement. However these traditional instruments of support are no longer valid in newer technologies such as mobile telephony. The innovation system has nevertheless achieved considerable sophistication that it is in a position to keep pace with changes in the technology frontier.

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Paper provided by Centre for Development Studies, Trivendrum, India in its series Centre for Development Studies, Trivendrum Working Papers with number 370.

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Length: 72 pages
Date of creation: Mar 2005
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Handle: RePEc:ind:cdswpp:370

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Keywords: Innovation capability; Korea; Telecommunications; Digital switching systems; CDMA mobile telephony;

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  1. Mani, Sunil, 2003. "Deregulation, Entry of MNCs, Public Technology Procurement and Innovation Capability in India's Telecommunications Equipment Industry," Discussion Papers 1, United Nations University, Institute for New Technologies.
  2. Mani, Sunil, 2004. "Coping with Globalisation An Analysis of Innovation Capability in Brazilian Telecommunications Equipment Industry," Discussion Papers 03, United Nations University, Institute for New Technologies.
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  1. J Devika, 2007. "‘A People United In Development’: Developmentalism In Modern Malayalee Identity," Working Papers id:1260, eSocialSciences.
  2. Sunil Mani, 2006. "The Dragon vs. The Elephant: Comparative Analysis of Innovation Capability in the Telecommunications Equipment Industry in China and India," Working Papers id:747, eSocialSciences.
  3. Nandana Baruah, 2006. "Antidumping Duties as a Measure of Contingent Protection: an Analysis of Indian Experience," Working Papers id:526, eSocialSciences.
  4. Govindan Parayil & K.J. Joseph, 2006. "Trade Liberalisation and Digital Divide: an Analysis of the Information Technology Agreement of WTO," Working Papers id:583, eSocialSciences.
  5. Sunil Mani, 2007. "The Growth Performance Of India’s Telecommunications Services Industry, 1991-2006. Can It Lead To The Emergence of a Domestic Manufacturing Hub?," Working Papers id:1279, eSocialSciences.
  6. P. Mohanan Pillai & N. Shanta, 2010. "Long Term Trends in the Growth and Structure of the Net State Domestic Product in Kerala," Working Papers id:2996, eSocialSciences.
  7. Hrushikesh Mallick, 2007. "Does Energy Consumption Fuel Economic Growth In India?," Working Papers id:1299, eSocialSciences.
  8. R. Mohan, 2010. "Taxing Powers and Developmental Role of the Indian States: A Study with Reference to Kerala," Working Papers id:2997, eSocialSciences.
  9. K.N. Nair & R Ramakumar, 2008. "Agrarian Distress and Rural Livelihoods A Study in Upputhara Panchayat Idukki District, Kerala," Working Papers id:1321, eSocialSciences.
  10. Pulapre Balakrishnan, 2008. "Visible Hand: Public Policy nd Economic Growth in the Nehru Era," Working Papers id:1355, eSocialSciences.

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