Keeping pace with globalisation innovation capability in Korea's telecommunications equipment industry

노트 : This paper is part of a larger UNU-INTECH research project (2000-31- 161-00) analysing the innovation capability of the telecommunications equipment industry in four developing countries namely Brazil, China, India and Korea. I am grateful to UNU-INTECH for giving me the opportunity to work on this project. Excellent logistical support in Korea was provided by the International Co-operation Agency for Korea IT in general and Wonbae Son in particular. Research assistance provided by Sean Lim is gratefully acknowledged too. I am also thankful to Eveline in de Braek for her kind help with some of the data tables. Thanks are also due to Narayan Ramachandran for making available a number of useful documents on the Asian telecommunications industry. The anonymous referee at the Centre made a number of useful suggestions and comments, some of which are incorporated in the paper. (The rest omitted