A COMPARISON OF THE ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY OF INDIA AND KOREA

This paper is a comparative study of the electronics industry of India and South Korea. The study shows how Korea has developed over the las t twenty years in the area of electronics because of its target-orient ed policy towards export, whereas India could not develop its electron ics industry due to overemphasis on indigenization, with the result it could not catch lip with advances abroad in electronics technology an d ended np with a weak electronic component industry. The paper conclu des with some suggestions to develop the Indian software industry. Thi s is the area where India could compete with other developing countrie s. At this stage India should not get involved so much in developing c omputer hardware without the support of a strong component industry. ( C) 1998 Elsevier-Science Ltd. All rights reserved.