TY - JOUR
T1 - Windows of opportunities for catching up
T2 - an analysis of ICT sector development in Ukraine
AU - Aridi, Anwar
AU - Hayter, Christopher S.
AU - Radosevic, Slavo
N1 - Funding Information:
This paper is based on a research funded by the World Bank Ukraine Finance and Enterprise Sector Recovery and Growth Trust Fund.
Funding Information:
This paper is based on a research funded by the World Bank?Ukraine Finance and Enterprise Sector Recovery and Growth Trust Fund.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2021/6
Y1 - 2021/6
N2 - Following long-standing calls to investigate information and communication technology (ICT) sector development in lesser-developed economies, this study examines the sector’s rapid emergence in Ukraine utilizing a catch-up cycle conceptual framework. Ukraine is a unique case due to the country’s location in Eastern Europe, the sector’s explosive growth within an otherwise stagnant economy, and related disconnectedness to other economic sectors. This study finds that the confluence of several windows of opportunity spurred an entrepreneurial response among hundreds of firms. However, most of these firms focus on low value-added segments of the ICT global value chain and lack the managerial and technical capabilities to compete globally, much less develop new products and services. As the global ICT services sector evolves, multi-level interventions are required to maintain the sector’s growth trajectory and realize the economic and social benefits normally associated the development of a domestically inter-connected ICT sector. In order for Ukraine to secure its digital future, it must seize windows of opportunity in the global and European data economy.
AB - Following long-standing calls to investigate information and communication technology (ICT) sector development in lesser-developed economies, this study examines the sector’s rapid emergence in Ukraine utilizing a catch-up cycle conceptual framework. Ukraine is a unique case due to the country’s location in Eastern Europe, the sector’s explosive growth within an otherwise stagnant economy, and related disconnectedness to other economic sectors. This study finds that the confluence of several windows of opportunity spurred an entrepreneurial response among hundreds of firms. However, most of these firms focus on low value-added segments of the ICT global value chain and lack the managerial and technical capabilities to compete globally, much less develop new products and services. As the global ICT services sector evolves, multi-level interventions are required to maintain the sector’s growth trajectory and realize the economic and social benefits normally associated the development of a domestically inter-connected ICT sector. In order for Ukraine to secure its digital future, it must seize windows of opportunity in the global and European data economy.
KW - Organizational capabilities
KW - Outsourcing
KW - Software services
KW - Technology upgrading
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U2 - 10.1007/s10961-020-09795-5
DO - 10.1007/s10961-020-09795-5
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85085132605
SN - 0892-9912
VL - 46
SP - 701
EP - 719
JO - Journal of Technology Transfer
JF - Journal of Technology Transfer
IS - 3
ER -