Comparative Analysis on the Competitiveness of China and India in Software Service Trade

摘要

Although China has comparative advantages in infrastructure and hardware industry which are supporting software industry, India has more powerful and sustainable competitiveness in software service trade and is faced with more development opportunities than China. India's comparative advantages are more technical talents, bigger international market size, higher market concentration rate, better quality in market structure and products, more effective intelligence property protection, stronger government support to software service trade, and the dominating position in the United States which is the biggest software service contract awarding market. This paper analyzes the software service trade competitiveness of China and India by using methods of RCA coefficient, Diamond Model and multiple liner regression and puts forward several suggestions to improve China's competitiveness.