The Electronics Industry of Hong Kong: an analysis of its growth 1959-1969

Edward Chen Kwan-yiu wrote the thesis: The Electronics Industry of Hong Kong: an analysis of its growth for his Master of Social Sciences Degree, University of Hong Kong, 1971.

The thesis, linked below, comes from the HKU Scholars Hub: The University of Hong Kong

Thanks to York Lo for sending this in-depth study. He says, “this is an excellent HKU thesis written by the future Lingnan University president and Exco/Legco member Edward Chen Kwan-yiu in 1971 on the growth of the HK electronics industry including discussion about Peter H.T.Woo and the Atlas/Champagne companies.”

And thanks to IDJ for this advert from 1964.

Subjects covered include:
Early Development……..1959-1962
The Critical Years……….1962-1965
Problems and Growth….1965-1969

Companies mentioned and pages:
Atlas Electronics Corp II-1
Champagne Engineering Corp II-1
Sanyo II-4
Sony II-1, II-4
Fairchild Ltd II-8
Semi-Conductor Ltd, a subsidiary of Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corp (USA) IV-6
Unicon (HK) IV-21

This article was first posted on 2nd June 2015.

See: The Electronics Industry of Hong Kong: an analysis of its growth

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