Promoting Indigenous Technology Innovation through Technology Innovation System in the Context of Ca

• 作 者: Guanyu Liu Ping Gao
• 机 构: Institute for Development Policy and Management,The University of Manchester, Arthur Lewis Building,
• 出 处: 信息系统协会中国分会第六届学术年会
• 发表日期: 2015年8期
• 关键词: Standardization Government intervention Technology Innovation System Catching-up

　　China is witnessed to catch up in the field of mobile technology through years of technology innovation.Scholars have indicated the significance of China governments intervention, and also the tremendous contributions of Technology Innovation System (TIS) to the development in telecommunication.However,literature about how TIS in China can be well functioned and efficient with government intervention is still insufficient.Therefore, this work aims to understand that within the catching-up context how Chinese government promoted indigenous technology innovations in the telecommunication field through manipulating the TIS.An institutional perspective based framework is applied for analysis.Case of TD-SCDMA (3G) and TD-LTE (4G) innovations in China are examined based on extensive documentary research and semi-structured interviews.Accordingly, cases have shown that, for achieving innovation targets, the government has manipulated the TIS by exerting institutional pressures on key system components,both influential and regulative,to achieve specific targets in different TIS stages.These institutional pressures work with a time sequence and the environment of technology innovation is also significant.This work may not only advance the knowledge of government intervention in technology innovation literature,but also very much likely to offer practical implications for other late-coming nations who want to catch up through indigenous technology innovation like China.