2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Comparison study on India and China concerning accumulation of IT service industry

Research Project

Project/Area Number	19520676
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Human geography
Research Institution	Okayama University
Principal Investigator	KITAGAWA Hirofumi Okayama University, 大学院・社会文化科学研究科, 准教授 (20270994)
Project Period (FY)	2007 – 2009
Keywords	ITサービス業
Research Abstract	It aimed to clarify the regional fact in the industrial agglomeration formed along with the development of IT service industry in India and China where economic growth was remarkable in recent years. As a result, it became clear about the following points. That is, the IT service industry of the two countries has developed by the offshore method in the background of export. Such the offshore method contributes to the rise of new IT service, and leads to the development of a new field of export of the relation service that uses IT. The IT service industry of the two countries is strengthening the character as the export oriented industry more than before though there is a difference in the destination for export. It was existence of excellent, abundant human resources that supported the rapid growth of such IT service industry.