New Industries from New Places: The Emergence of the Software and Hardware Industries in China and India

Software comes from India, hardware comes from China. Why is that? Why did China and India take such different paths to global dominance in new high-tech industries? Will their paths continue to diverge or converge? How can other countries learn from their successes - and failures - in reaching global scale in new industries?

To answer these questions, this book presents the first rigorous comparison of the growth of the IT industries in China and India, based on interviews with over 300 compa…