High-tech industry and leapfrog development in developing regions

Author: Gu Xingrong
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: Focusing on how developing regions can use high technology to counteract the gradient shift and achieve leapfrog development (referred to as technological leapfrogging), this book first argues that leapfrog development is an inevitable choice for developing regions to catch up. It also argues that only high-tech industries are the preferred industries for achieving leapfrog development.
Secondly, it discusses the three major challenges faced by developing regions in achieving technological leapfrogging—talent, funding, and transportation and information infrastructure—and provides an overview of their current development status and improvement measures.
Furthermore, it explores various aspects of technological leapfrogging in developing regions, including the selection of organizational entities, the construction of organizational models, the social-technical integration principles of organizations; the horizontal and vertical triggering principles driven by core technologies; the pathways and models for technology commercialization; the optimization model of technical clusters for technology development and promotion; the alliance model, user cooperation model, intermediary service model, and the management innovation principles of technological leapfrogging.
Finally, it discusses the current status and improvement measures of the science, economy, and cultural environment for technological leapfrogging in developing regions. The book proposes many new perspectives and relevant data and quantitative models, which will provide certain inspiration and reference for research on the theory and management practices of technological leapfrogging in developing regions.