| Summary: | 博士 === 國立交通大學 === 經營管理研究所 === 89 === Entering the 21st century, technology has become the key issue of industrial development. Industrial development problems usually involve local characteristics. This research is concerning the industry problems of backward economics. From the viewpoint of how the technology development can progress industry growth, we construct a technology development model by exploring Taiwan electronics industry.
The conceptual framework of this electronics industry technology development model comes from four referencing literatures, including: the integrative framework of technology policy by Kim , the industrial leapfrogging by Hong, resource leverage by Mathews and industrial ecology by Yang & Cheng. This framework constructing the common essences of industry technology development into three dimensions of development stages, technology capability and technology strategy. In the learning progress of each development stage, the technology capability supports the strategy and affects the actual development experience. Then, this experience will cause a new technology capability in the next stage. To reflect the properties of technology capability in such problem, four components of technology, including technoware, humanware, inforware and organware, are used as the analytical basis. The case studies of our research are aimed at the PC industry, IC packaging industry, IC manufacturing industry and IC design industry of Taiwan. By visiting companies, interviewing experts and collecting industry reports, we acquire plentiful data. We make detail analysis under the concept of dynamic adaptation of strategy to technology capability, and obtain following results:
1.The background characteristics of Taiwan electronics industry including: limited resources, small local market, superior human resource, and export-led industry.
2.The development of Taiwan electronics industry appears staged technology chasing trajectory of backward economics. At each stage, the characteristics of capability and strategy are:
At the initial development stage, technology capability is far behind the advanced countries, and the upgrading of technology capability is focused on the technoware. Development strategy is then emphasized at obtaining technologies overseas, and the critical action is buying foreign technology.
At the middle development stage, technology capability is slightly behind the advanced countries, and the upgrading of technology capability is focused on the humanware. Development strategy is then emphasized at technology diffusing, and the critical action is spin-off new companies.
At the third development stage, technology capability is nearly catching up the advanced countries, and the upgrading of technology capability is focused on the infoware. Development strategy is then emphasized at adding values to technologies, and the critical action is strategic alliance.
Deriving from the model, we can see that organware is the development core of next stage, the technology creating is the strategic guideline, the critical issue is the construction of innovation mechanism, and the resources should allocate on supporting the self R&D of advanced technologies.
As to the industry technology development, there are some research topics worth to be kept on, such as competitive advantage factors and strategic actions discussed in our model, and the application of this model to other industries.
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