INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS IN EAST-ASIA - BROADBAND TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA

Developed East Asian economies (Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong) have recognized that broadband telecommunications and i nteractive multimedia technologies, are central to their overall inter national competitiveness. Adoption of these technologies provides a ca se study of growing international competition and cooperation between East Asian and Western industrialized countries in high-technology ind ustries, While there is extensive rivalry between firms and between co untries, cooperative agreements between firms in these technologies ar e also important. Other East Asian countries are also expanding their investment in these technologies, although expansion of the basic tele phone network is a much higher policy priority, (C) 1997 Elsevier Scie nce Ltd.