Innovative competitors in emerging economies

Project time: 2014 – 2017

Budget: 5 904 000 kr

The project identifies strategies and innovative capabilities of competitors in emerging economies, and suggests responses and learning opportunities for Swedish firms.

Many firms in high growth economies have invested massively in R&D and product development. Swedish firms therefore have to compete with previously unknown firms from China and India, Korea and Turkey: Huawei (China) has caught up the technological forefront in telecom; the Chinese auto industry invests to upgrade from domestic production to internationally competitive products; Arcelik in Turkey and Haier in China excel in large scale manufacturing and long-term investments in R&D in white goods, Sany and Zoomlion have rapidly established competitive technologies in the heavy machine engineering industry. The speed with which the new innovator firms build product development capabilities challenges both established firms and research in new product development. Huawei, is now Ericsson´s worst competitor, Arcelik and Haier competes with Electrolux in terms of patents and product innovations, Sany and Zoomlion challenge Volvo CE and Atlas Copco.

The aim of this project is to work in close collaboration with Swedish firms to:

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