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China's strategies for ICT standards

  • Informatization Policy
  • Abbr : 정보화정책
  • 2008, 15(4), pp.55-68
  • Publisher : NIA
  • Research Area : Social Science > Public Policy

Heejin Lee 1 오상조 2

1연세대학교
2동양미래대학

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ABSTRACT

Since China’s accession to WTO in 2001, standards have emerged as an effective means to protect and promote domestic industries, especially in the ICT sector. China develops its own standards in many areas of the ICT sector, and intends to establish each of them as an international standard. Despite the significance of understanding the impacts of these standard setting attempts on the ICT industry in Korea, there is little research in this area. This paper investigates China’s attempts to set up ICT standards. Three standards (WAPI, TD-SCDMA and AVS) are examined to find similarities and differences in the processes of their development and standardization. Techno-nationalism and techno-globalism are used to identify the patterns of China’s ICT standards strategy. In contrast with a previous study which concludes China’s standards policy as‘ neo-techno-nationalism’, this paper reveals that each case has a distinguished orientation in terms of techno-nationalism and techno-gloabalism: WAPI is aligned with techno-nationalism, TD-SCDMA with technoglobalism, and AVS with techno-hybrids or neo-techno-nationalism. Implications for the Korean ICT industry are discussed in the context of Korean ICT firms’entrance to the Chinese market, ICT standards in coming FTAs, and standards wars where Korean ICT firms are increasingly involved.

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