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8 Simultaneous Sessions
Pages 33-42

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From page 33...
... A value on collaboration, not just competitiveness, can spur global innovation. In INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND this new environment, agility of innovation and COMMUNICATIONS fast solutions for new business models will command a premium.
From page 34...
... Jason Dedrick of the University of By building on their domestic market base, California, Irvine, spoke on IT market local firms can launch into the global market, as opportunities in China and India (Table 5)
From page 35...
... Dedrick characterized this as a Patrick Canavan of Motorola, the session need for "T-shaped people," with the vertical moderator, told how in Motorola's experience base of the T representing technical depth and the company's innovation in China came, in one the top horizontal bar representing broad instance, from a disappointed company management familiarity. executive who engaged local technical expertise Balaji Yallavalli of Infosys Technologies, to find a market sensitive solution.
From page 36...
... car platforms, and this work is being done in India not only by the multinationals but also by Indian-owned and domestically headquartered TRANSPORT EQUIPMENT companies. This development, in Engardio's view, is a This session focused primarily on cars, function of the disintegration of vertical trucks, and civilian and military aircraft as these integration in global manufacturing, the are expected to be areas of major domestic emphasis on modular production and much market growth and manufacturing capacity shorter production cycles, the importance of expansion in both China and India.
From page 37...
... Chinese auto makers are handicapped in this Other session participants focused primarily regard not only by a history of poor quality but on the development of the Chinese passenger also by characteristics of the domestic market. automobile market, which Zheng Jane Zhao of In particular, brand name recognition has little the University of Kansas Business School economic value in China.
From page 38...
... Chinese auto makers have generally relied on Both countries also serve as the site for alliances with multinationals for much of their much clinical trial work, Cooney said; and quite innovation, but this is being questioned because recently China has surpassed India as the site of the alliances limit the Chinese companies' the largest number of trials outside of the ability to control their own destiny and brand developed countries. Vincent Ling, vice identity.
From page 39...
... Kuan Wang from the National major advantage is the cost of scientific labor in Institutes of Health spoke about the possibility Shanghai, which is one-fourth to one-seventh the of using knowledge from the traditional cost in the United States. On the other hand, the medicines of China and India to develop new Chinese biotechnology industry is very young treatments.
From page 40...
... Traditional medicines themselves and China, should reduce their energy intensity cannot be patented, but derivatives can be, so by a similar amount. Energy intensity is the research will be needed both to identify the ratio of a country's energy consumption to its effective ingredients in traditional medicines and gross domestic product (GDP)
From page 41...
... To put that in perspective, the total to 20 years, making the country the largest current generating capacity of the United States nuclear power market in the world; but nuclear is now about 900 gigawatts. power will account for only 3 to 4 percent of the "When you have power demand growing total installed capacity in 2020.
From page 42...
... He suggested that it is ultrasupercritical pulverized coal power crucially important to get the incentives for generation technology, which is also high cleaner technologies right in China because the efficiency but has back-end clean-up to keep country's huge market and position as a global emissions at a minimum; integrated gasification manufacturing base for energy technology. If combined cycle plants, which can be almost as China builds a large amount of capacity with clean as plants burning natural gas; and coal wind power, for example, world prices for that gasification and liquification technologies.


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