China's and India's bids to become R&D powerhouses: Industry Report

China's and India's bids to become R&D powerhouses

Product Type: Market Research Report
Published by: Ovum Plc
Published: May 2008
Product Code: R464-765

Description

China and India have both established themselves as world-class competitors - not to speak of exporters - in important segments of the global economy: China in manufacturing and India in services. Both countries have climbed rapidly up the value chain in these fields. China, for example, has progressed from textiles and footwear into a huge range of technology-based products, which now account for almost one-third of the country’s total exports. India, meanwhile, has evolved from maintaining legacy computer code and doing the grunt work required with Y2K compliance into a premier source of leading-edge SOA application development and business process optimization and outsourcing.

Both countries will compete increasingly with each other - and with dozens of other developed and emerging countries - to become the high-tech R&D and manufacturing back offices to the world. Both, however, recognize the need to go much further than to support the needs of Western corporations. Both are also taking big steps toward developing their own global high-tech companies and their own global high-tech brands.

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Key messages
India and China’s move up the economic value chain: Initial inroads; Altering the competitive map; New horizons; R&D as the next target
China and India’s entry into high-tech R&D services: Ancient history; Reawakenings; Rapidly expanding capabilities; Reasons for investment
R&D growth drivers and inhibitors: Market growth potential; Number of qualified people; R&D quality; Government policies; IP protection; University collaboration
Funding Chinese and Indian innovation: The need for entrepreneurs; Flood of foreign capital; The role of domestic funding
China’s and India’s comparative advantages: Comparative summary; China’s infrastructure advantages; English as India’s ace; The trouble with governments; Educational landmines
India’s and China’s value-added challenges: Upgrading India’s image; The value in China’s value-add; Defining high-tech
External economic challenges: Challenges from above; Challenges from below; Raw material challenges
The ‘Chindia’ solution: The risk of single-leg growth foundations; The benefits of joining forces; A boom in Sino-Indian trade
R&D as a necessary - but not sufficient - step into a value-added future: The foundation for the next evolution of industry

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