Professor of Management Policy at Case Western Reserve University.
He is author or co-author of three books on technology management and policy, as well as articles on these subjects in Science, Research Policy, IEEE Transactions on Management, and other journals.
Forging new links in the global technology system: cases from China and India
Until the late 1990s Western and Japanese multinationals (MNEs) primarily used technologists in China, India and other emerging economies to “dumb-down” technologies from the “advanced” economies, making products and processes more suited to primitive operating environments. As trade barriers were reduced and communications technologies improved, the MNEs became enthralled by the possibility of using China’s and India’s pools of low-wage engineers in developing products for global markets. This paper draws on field work by the author and his colleagues to explore the evolution of China’s and India’s roles in this new system.
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