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Published by: University of California, Berkeley
Published in: "California Management Review", 1997

Abstract

A thriving semi-conductor industry has been created in Taiwan over the course of the past two decades by the use of advanced organizational techniques of technology leverage and accelerated technology diffusion. By the mid-1990s, the industry had reached a level of output that placed it behind only the United States, Japan, and Korea. Almost all of Taiwan''s semi-conductor industry is located in the Hsinchu Science-Based Industry Park, which was created in emulation of California''s Stanford Research Park, but with more direct government involvement. This article explores the extent to which this emergent Silicon Valley in Taiwan shares the ''industrial ecology'' that has powered innovation in California and examines the extent to which the Taiwan industry suffers from weaknesses attributed to its rapid creation through technology leverage.

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Abstract

A thriving semi-conductor industry has been created in Taiwan over the course of the past two decades by the use of advanced organizational techniques of technology leverage and accelerated technology diffusion. By the mid-1990s, the industry had reached a level of output that placed it behind only the United States, Japan, and Korea. Almost all of Taiwan''s semi-conductor industry is located in the Hsinchu Science-Based Industry Park, which was created in emulation of California''s Stanford Research Park, but with more direct government involvement. This article explores the extent to which this emergent Silicon Valley in Taiwan shares the ''industrial ecology'' that has powered innovation in California and examines the extent to which the Taiwan industry suffers from weaknesses attributed to its rapid creation through technology leverage.

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