The Research On Technological Catch-up Strategy Of Late-comer Countries Industry Based On Sectoral Innovation System Theory

The late-comer countries' industrial evolutions are actually industrial upgrading processes dominated by technological catch-up.Technological catch-up plays a crucial role in promoting industrial development and economic prosperity.Because of our special historical environment and industry background,many industries in China still have development gaps compared with those in developed countries.We act a part of chaser in the process of industrial development.The factors affecting technological catch-up are diverse,such as technological system,demand market system and participants strategy and so on.Different catch-up strategies have different catch-up effects.Some enterprises gradually surpass technology leaders rely on suitable catch-up strategies.And they become to lead the development.While other enterprises chose to rely on unsustainable catch-up strategies.Although they achieved more quickly catching up at the beginning,these enterprises are unable to be successful because of power shortage in the late development process.Exploring the influence factors of catch-up and enterprises' strategies of technological is significant for enterprises in later-comer countries to get successful technological catch-up.This paper analysis the technological catch-up strategies in late-comer countries with the theory of sectoral innovation system,and proposes the technological catch-up models with using the sectoral innovation system theory.This theory emphasizes to synthetically and systematically consider network function and factors' connections that play a role in industrial innovation.It will roundly present the influence factors of technological catch-up in late-comer countries.This paper explores the typical industry in consumer electronics——mobile phone industry based on analyzing characteristics of our consumer electronics industry.This study follows the time sequence of Chinese mobile phone industry and selects three cases to analyze.The cases are domestic mobile phones in the early development stage,emulation mobile phones in development process and smart phones in 3G.The models built from three aspects—technological regime,demand market systems and participants strategies.This paper compares and analyses these technological catch-up strategies and proposes the technological catch-up strategies that are suitable for late-comer countries.