HIGH TECH COMPETITIVENESS: SPOTLIGHT ON ASIA

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Volume 2 Issue 2 2006

Author(s):

Alan L. Porter
Co-director of the Technology Policy andd Assesment Center (TPAC), Professor Emeritus Of Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISyE) and of Public Policy , School Public Policy Georgia Tech Atlanta
alan.porter@isye.getech.edu.

Xiao-Yin Jin
Research Associate at TPAC ,Georgia Tech 685 Cherry Street , Atlanta
xiyiu@isye.gatech.edu

Nils C Newman
President of the Intelligent Information Services Corporation (ILSC), Atlanta USA
newman@issco.com

David Johnson
Student of the School of Industrial and System Engineering Georgia Tech
gtg846g@mail.gatech.edu

David Johnson Roessner
Co-director of TPAC Professor Emeritus Of Industrial & Systems Engineering and of Public Policy , School Public Policy Georgia Tech Dr, Prescott USA
david.roessner@pubpolicy.gatech.edu
Abstract Beginning in the late 1980’s the Technology Policy and Assessment Center (TPAC) at Georgia Tech has been measuring the capability of nations to compete in technology-enabled exports. The resulting “High Tech Indicators” (HTI) contribute to the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Science & Engineering Indicators1 .Our focus has been on the rapidly industrializing countries; we include a number of highly developed countries as benchmarks. In the early days, the inclusion of a number of Asian nations as potential high tech competitors to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) seemed somewhat whimsical. Obviously, the U.S., Japan, and the leading Western European countries were farremoved from the up-and-coming Asian economies. That is no longer the case. In this report, we profile the emergence of the Asian nations as bonafide global competitors. To do so, we emphasize longitudinal comparisons from 1993 through 2005 using our traditional HTI measures for 10 Asian countries plus the U.S. as a benchmark, with selected comparisons to the full set of 33 HTI countries. We then offer a new perspective for 2005 based on our newly formulated statistical HTI measures.
Keywords Rate of Technological Change High Technology Indicator Competitiveness Ranking
Year 2006
Volume 2
Issue 2
Type Research paper, manuscript, article
Recognized by Higher Education Commission of Pakistan, HEC
Category "Y"
Journal Name IBT Journal of Business Studies
Publisher Name ILMA University
Jel Classification -
DOI https://doi.org/10.46745/ILMA.jbs.2006.22.02
ISSN no (E, Electronic) 2409-6520
ISSN no (P, Print) 2416-8393
Country Pakistan
City Karachi
Institution Type University
Journal Type Open Access
Manuscript Processing Blind Peer Reviewed
Format PDF
Paper Link http://ibtjbs.ilmauniversity.edu.pk/journal/jbs/2.2/2.%20High%20Tech%20Competitiveness%20Spotlight%20on%20Asia.pdf