Global Value Chain After The Country's Industry, A Technological Leap

Technology leapfrogging is the highest level of technological innovation. Although countries are actively practice and achieved fruitful results, but the theory appeared only from Eighties. Basing on the current research, the deep theoretical studies on technology leapfrogging are rare. There is also no unified research paradigm. The desired success has not achieved as to explain and guide the practices of industry technology leapfrogging. Under such conditions, in-depth study of technology leapfrogging and the building of theoretical system of industry technology leapfrogging is particularly important.From the perspective of the global value chain, this paper has characterized the linkage between transnational corporations and local enterprises and the resulting effect of industrial development. The phenomenon of technology diffusion along the global value chain has been analyzed. The behavior of enterprises technology learning and the process of technological capability accumulation have been discussed. The author also emphasized the importance of technological ecological environment. The basic models of industry technological leapfrogging have been generalized and compared. The research is organized along the industry technology leapfrogging object, subject and environmental aspects. Case studies use two levels: business and industry. It is proposed that to fulfill the strategic aim, latecomers should make full use of global value chain technical knowledge and market resources to improve their technological capabilities and market power of local enterprises. It also emphasizes to improve the ecological environment of industrial technology and choose a reasonable mode of technology leapfrogging.The full-text is divided into nine sections, organized as follows:Chapter 1 IntroductionThis chapter is including the background and significance of thesis research, research status, the study of basic ideas and methods, the main content and structure of paper, the major innovation and some aspects need to be improved.Chapter 2 The basic theory of technology leapfroggingThis chapter is the basis for the following study. First of all, from the political economics, international economics and sociology and other disciplines, the ideological sources of the field of technology leapfrogging has been explored. Secondly, the theoretical basis of technology leapfrogging have been reviewed, which include the economic growth and economic development theory, the latecomer advantage theory, the traditional and the modern theory of industry catching up theory. It helps to clarify thinking from the perspective of theory development. It is Redefined the basic concepts involved including technological progress, technological innovation and diffusion, technology catch up and leapfrogging; discriminated the type of technology leapfrogging using frontier production function as analysis tools. Finally, the key elements of industry technology leapfrogging realization have been discussed.Chapter 3 The MNCs and the host country industry development under global value chainGlobal value chain is the main form of contemporary international division of labor. The company from latecomer countries is both a member of a corporate network with global value chain but also the major player of technological leapfrogging. This chapter starts from the formation of global value chains, the concept of global value chain and the background of international division of labor for latecomer countries to practice technological leapfrogging. Next, the global value chain has been deconstructed from the enterprise perspective, which including members of the network, the network structure, network driving forces and network governance structure. The business linkage between MNCs and local enterprises is the core concept of knowledge transfer among generating from global value chain. It has been analyzed layer by layer from the concept of linkage, the classification of linkage to the from of linkage. Basing on the understanding of conflicts between MNCs and host country government, the paper study the effects of global value chain on the host industry development which including industrial structure upgrading and technology progress effects. A diamond model related with the influential factors of technology leapfrogging has been presented in the end of this part.Chapter 4 Technology diffusion within global value chainThis chapter analyses some key influential factors of leapfrogging, which including knowledge factor and talents factor. Some issues related with the technology diffusion within GVC have been discussed ,which include the pusher and the major characteristics of technology diffusion, the channel and the influential factors of technology diffusion. Finally an econometrics model has been introduced.Chapter 5 Technology learning and technological capability accumulationFirm-level technological learning and capability accumulation are the premise and foundation of technology leapfrogging. The author differentiate the core corresponding terminologies and define technology leapfrogging and its capability. A comprehensive evaluation system of technology leapfrogging capability on firm level has been designed. The importance of the mode of technology learning has been manifested. Processing trade has been used here to describe the real process of knowledge transfer and technology diffusion within global value chain. Finally, the enterprise capability accumulation has been analyzed combined with global value chain governance model and the type of global value chain implementations.Chapter 6 Case studies of industry technology leapfroggingThis chapter is based on the leapfrogging practices from South Korea's CDMA technology industries and Indian software industry. Some points such as technology leapfrogging need the support from government, the formation of technology standards and the construction of complete industry chain.Chapter 7 The construction of technology industry ecological environmentIn this chapter, the author focus on the negative effects of embedding global value chain for industry technology leapfrogging and explore how to build better technology ecological environment. Some basic terminology such as environment attributes of technology, technology ecological environment etc. have been clarified. Industry technological chain has been emphasized in this part, because that is the basic requirements for leapfrogging. At the end of this part, a technology ecological network model has been introduced.Chapter 8 The basic mode of industry technology leapfroggingThe aim of this chapter is to summarize the basic mode of carrying out technology leapfrogging in latecomer countries. The author use some factors like technology source, type of firms and external driving forces to classify the technology leapfrogging and compare each mode.Chapter 9 The conclusions and future research prospectsIn this chapter, the author summarizes the major findings in the previous chapters and proposes the future improvement aspects.