{"product_id":"making-it-9780804753869","title":"Making IT","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is about the causes and major consequences of the rise of Asia in the IT industry.  It focuses on six regions\/countries:  Japan, especially Fukuoka in the South; Teheran Valley in Seoul; Zhongguancun Science Park in Beijing; Hsinchu Science-based Park in Taiwan; Singapore; and Bangalore in India.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"...offers stimulating, informative, and authoritative accounts of the enduring issues that affect IT in the region. The volume should therefore serve as an important standard reference in what has become a very large literature on the subject, and would be a very useful addition in advanced courses on Asian political economy and high-tech industrial development.\"—\u003ci\u003eEast Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMaking IT\u003c\/i\u003e harvests a bumper crop of useful information, facts, and figures... \u003ci\u003eMaking IT\u003c\/i\u003e is solidly informative about the origins and evolutions of IT industries in Asia.\"—\u003ci\u003eBusiness History Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMaking IT\u003c\/i\u003e is an excellent work of collective scholarship. The book provides a wealth of information on one of the most striking episodes in economic development of the past few decades—the rise to global prominence in the IT sector of a part of the world that had long been regarded as a technological backwater.\"—Nathan Rosenberg, Stanford University\u003cbr\u003e\"The great strength of \u003ci\u003eMaking IT\u003c\/i\u003e lies in its detailed case studies of Taiwan, India, Singapore, Korea, China, and Japan. The comparative focus on high-tech clusters and the explicit comparisons to Silicon Valley as the leader and model make an excellent contribution to our understanding of the high-tech cluster phenomenon and the ongoing competitive rise of the Asian economies considered in the book.\"—Hugh Patrick, Columbia University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS  \t\t\t CONTRIBUTOR BIOGRAPHIES  Chapter 1: Overview  HENRY ROWEN  PART I: The Early Developer: Japan  Chapter 2: Stability and Change in the Japanese System  KEN-ICHI IMAI  Chapter 3: Japan Actually has Start-ups  NOBORU MAEDA  Appendices: Japanese clusters  TORU TANIGAWA  YASUHISA YAMAGUCHI   PART II: Three Asian IT Tigers  \t Taiwan  Chapter 4: Hsinchu: Asia's Pioneering high Tech Park  CHINTAY SHIH, KUNG WANG, YI-LING WEI  \t Singapore  Chapter 5: The Re-Making of Singapore's High Tech Enterprise Ecosystem  POH KAM WONG  South Korea  Chapter 6: The Tale of Two Valleys: Daeduk and Teheran  ZONG-TAE BAE, JUN-WOO BAE, JONG-GIE KIM, KARK BUM LEE, SANG-MOK SUH,   SAM OCK PARK  PART III: The Recent Arrival of Two Giants  China  Chapter 7: Zhonggcuancun: China's Pioneering High-Tech Cluster  MULAN ZHAO  India  Chapter 8: Entrepreneurship: The True Story behind Indian IT  RAFIQ DOSSANI  PART IV: Some Common Themes  Chapter 9: How Governments Shaped their IT Industries  HENRY S. ROWEN  Chapter 10: Venture Capital in Asia  MARTIN KENNEY, KYONGHEE HAN, SHOKO TANAKA  Chapter 10: Universities and Industries Exchange Technologies in America and Asia   JON SANDELIN  Concluding Remarks: THE EDITORS  Index","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405565436247,"sku":"9780804753869","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804753869.jpg?v=1730492853","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/making-it-9780804753869","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}