The sector s domestic value chain is woefully weak.

The knowledge economy was leading to a phasing out of traditional comfort zones and created many additional opportunities for new entrants, including those from developing countries, in the electronics industry value chain.

Box 4 Tata Motors' Experience in Value Chain Upgrading

It was observed that a short product life cycle and deverticalization of the industry would create better opportunities for African countries and LDCs to participate in the electronics production value chain and trade.

More sophistication is being introduced into the distribution chain to maximize value in each segment of the chain.

China wants to shift from low value added, labor intensive industries such as textiles to higher value added sectors such as electronics and capital goods.

Moreover, to identify niche products and increase value added, firms need to understand the value chain of textiles and clothing production.

This is jobs and opportunity all the way up and down the value chain.

Each link in the chain adds a certain amount of value to the final product.

Electronics sector

Electronics sector

Mobile electronics.

Home electronics.

General Electronics?

Emerging economies scale is growing, and their positioning on the global value chain is shifting rapidly.

Firms need to construct global innovation networks to coordinate the dispersed and disintegrated innovation value chain.

This typically involves a fragmentation of the value chain, with different activities being located in different areas.

To better understand the opportunities and upgrading possibilities that value chains offer to SMEs, one needs to consider that value chains are not homogeneous, and that the opportunities for rent appropriation by different parties can vary from chain to chain.

(i) Electronics sector

2.2.4 ELECTRONICS, ETC. .

As Chinese manufacturing moved up the value chain, firms increasingly replaced workers with machines embodying the latest technologies.

Over the next decade, global competition will come to be defined as competition over the global value chain.

However, when talking about upgrading SME activities in a value chain context, one has to take into account that upgrading may include a reorganization within each link in the chain as well as a possible functional redistribution of intra chain activities.

Electrical and electronics equipment

OPPO Electronics Corp. is a Chinese electronics manufacturer based in Dongguan, Guangdong province, China.

Market forces could then allocate these appreciations across supply chain countries based on their value added in processing trade.

By forming cooperatives, they can move up the value chain into the processing, packaging, and marketing of their produce.

Improving industrial performance, including harmonization of industrial policy in the cotton textile garment value chain through public private partnerships

Through the Agricultural Machinery Industrial System, all income generation equipment, essential for the exploitation of the value chain, is supported.

Difficulties may arise because the degree of upgrading, especially moving to links adding higher value in the chain (e.g. marketing or design), often depends greatly on the form and degree of chain governance.

Electronics major, Han Ha Shik.

Along China s dynamic coastal belt, local governments are drafting new economic blueprints to push their firms up the value added chain.

As a result, most of the value chain for the fossil fuel and mining sectors continues to be outside the continent.

The strengthening of the value chain not only raises farmers incomes, but also empowers crop diversification and farm upgrading more generally.

At this level, China would finally have the domestic value chain that it needs to sustain competitiveness and rapid economic growth.

It produces 50 60 dramas a month its value chain produces faster service at low cost and it understands its market.

However, in addition to the increased competitiveness of their firms, importing countries could enjoy additional benefits, for example moving up the value chain to higher value activities or increasing their exports.

Chain

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Western sales manager for Kingby Electronics.

So we've started roundtables where we bring together the entire value chain, from producers all the way to the retailers and brands.

(e) Linking value chain development with dynamic small and medium enterprises that serve as potential sources of income creation and employment generation.

While process and product upgrading are readily understood, they are probably least likely to offer a bigger share of value chain returns.

So we've started roundtables where we bring together the entire value chain, from producers all the way to the retailers and brands.

As outsourced services in developing countries such as China and India move up the value chain to cover phase 1 2 trials, the total contracts value may increase to 20 billion by 2010.