BUSINESSWEEK ONLINE : NOVEMBER 27, 2000 ISSUE
INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN COVER STORY The Tech Future East Asia is betting its growth on a quartet of high-tech industries: BIOTECHNOLOGY East Asia has lagged far behind the West in the life sciences. But the region's wealth of brainpower and low costs could make Singapore, Taiwan, China, and Korea global hubs for turning discoveries in genetics and molecular structure into commercial products. WIRELESS INTERNET APPLIANCES East Asian electronics companies hope to be global players in a gamut of digital products that access the Internet. SOFTWARE Countries such as Vietnam and Indonesia hope to establish themselves as contractors to develop software applications, animation, and Web services. SPECIALTY CHIPS Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore have been enormous suppliers of commodity semiconductors. Now, they hope to rival Silicon Valley as producers of innovative and higher-margin multimedia chips. DATA: BUSINESS WEEK _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _					RELATED ITEMS Asia's Future (int'l edition) COVER IMAGE: Asia's Tech Future TABLE: The Tech Future Beyond the Lab (int'l edition) CHART: Startup Explosion The Chips Are Up (int'l edition) TABLE: Betting Big Chasing the Dream to Shanghai (int'l edition) Minds over Matter (int'l edition) CHART: Going, Going... A Biotech Hub (int'l edition) CHART: Genetic Express Rewriting the Rules (int'l edition) TABLE: Vietnam's IT Plan INTERACT E-Mail to Business Week Online

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