TECHNOLOGY CLUSTERS: CHINA, INDIA AND THE NEW WORLD OF ENGINEERING COLLABORATION

It is helpful to think of the engineering process according to the aspects of CDIO. However, although this formulation presumes that most engineering work is shared and collaborative it does not specify the particular features and problems associated with collaboration. These days much highly technical collaboration is done at a great distance and across disparate cultures. This phenomenon is increasingly the case with the growing influence of China and India. The rise of China and India in the global technological economy has demonstrated the effectiveness of technology clusters as highly flexible venues for innovation and entrepreneurship. flow do such clusters foster engineering collaboration in China and India? What impact will these Asian technology clusters have on engineering practice across the rest of the world? Given the power of instantaneous electronic networks to share even the most complex sets of data and to support collaboration on large, elaborate and proprietary endeavors, does the geographic location or cultural setting make any significant difference?