Deepening or delinking? Innovative capacity and global value chain participation in the IT industry

Bridging the divide or deepening it?

IN “BRIDGING THE DIVIDE IN THE HOLY LAND” (News Focus, 21 Apr., p. 352), J. Bohannon discusses his view of how Israeli and Palestinian scientists are working together within the frame of the Israeli-Palestinian Scientific Organization (IPSO). The article ends on an optimistic note, with the Palestinian scientist Mukhles Sowwan stating that “science is a universal language, like music. It can ma...

Smallholder Global Value Chain Participation : The Role of Aggregation

Smallholder Global Value Chain Participation: The Role of Aggregation by Eva Szalkai Csaky Public Policy Studies Duke University Date:_______________________ Approved: ___________________________ Frederick Mayer, Supervisor ___________________________ Gary Gereffi _________________________ Anirudh Krishna _______________________ Phyllis Pomerantz An abstract of a dissertation submitted in parti...

Beyond the ‘Global Factory’ model: innovative capabilities for upgrading China’s IT Industry

China is now the largest exporter of IT goods, surpassing the USA, up from a world ranking of tenth in the year 2000. But this ‘global factory’ model now faces new competitive challenges as globalisation transforms markets for technology and knowledge workers. This has forced China’s policy makers and corporate strategists to seek ways to move beyond the ‘global factory’ model. A brief review o...

R&D, Value Chain Location and Firm Performance in the Global Electronics Industry

In today’s global electronics industry, innovation is carried out by various value chain participants, including brand-name manufacturers (sometimes called lead firms), contract manufacturers and component suppliers, but there is little understanding of who benefits most from innovation in such networks. This research examines empirically the relationship of R&D spending and location in the val...

Semiconductor Industry: Rising Up The Value Chain