ABSTRACT
The electronics industry is one of most globalized activities in the world (Malecki 1997). Among the foreign-trade commodity groups, only raw materials and fuels trade value exceeds the trade of electronics products. Different from raw materials industries, the electronics industry employs a considerable number of people (Lall et al. 2003; Belderbos and Zou 2005). Labour intensity and the search for new solutions both by public and private actors have caused substantial delocalization in the electronics industry (Chang and Rosenzweig 1995).
