| Summary: | 碩士 === 東吳大學 === 國際貿易學系 === 92 === IC design service companies are booming recently in Taiwan. There are two reasons for the success of Taiwan’s IC design service company: Firstly, although there are more than 400 design houses in Taiwan, most of them are small-sized start-up companies. They have limited resources in human and capital. They also have difficulties on engineers training and design tool purchases. If these companies could execute project by outsourcing or one stop shopping service, they can increase the product development efficiently and decrease overhead sharply. Secondly, the engineers of downstream system assembly companies have poor concepts in IC designing. If they can work together with experts of IC design service companies, they can decrease the launching time of new-product. Therefore, the requirements of IC design service company are expertise, accumulates robust Silicon Intellectual Property, vertical relationships buildup, experience and human resources. In other words, IC design service company needs to own its intellectual capital to survive in this new-type industry.
The purpose of this paper is to explore and induce the design service company’s key intellectual capital and enterprise strategy. This paper uses both qualitative and quantitative research methods. Case study method is adopted to analyze IC design service company’s intellectual capital qualitatively. AHP analysis is adopted to analyze IC design service company’s key intellectual capital. This paper also uses Spearman rank correlation analysis to analyze the correlation between key intellectual capital and enterprise strategy.
The major finding of this study is: innovation capital, internationalization, vertical integration, product development capability and technology capability are the common development directions of successful IC design service companies.
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