The changing map of global innovation battles
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by Olga Annushkina
SDA Professor of Strategic and Entrepreneurial Management
We are used to many contemporary breakthrough technology-based consumer products and services imported from the USA: Apple’s iconic smartphones and tablets, social networks, Amazon, wearable technologies, shared services. The USA corporations are launching these innovative products and services to target consumers in all important global markets, and Asia with its growing population, increasing urbanization levels and average incomes represents one of the key growth engines.
The increasingly interesting phenomena are products and services arriving from Asia that directly counterattack the US product launches in Asia and then on other competitive arenas. And Asian companies start succeeding where their European counterparts failed in 1990s and 2000s: in challenging the US-dominated global innovation.
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