| Summary: | 碩士 === 開南管理學院 === 企業管理學系碩士班 === 94 === Recently the semiconductor industry (also called “IC Industry”) has achieved the best performance in the high tech industries of Taiwan in the global capital market. And the increasing demands for the information and electronic products by common consumers force the semiconductor industry to grow rapidly. Thus more domestic IC companies aggressively seize the opportunity. That is, these companies invest massive manpower and money in the R&D activities with an attempt to promote their manufacturing technology and design capacity for keeping up with the world-class companies and competing internationally. The technology of patent development is an important strategy for the high tech industry to compete in the economics market and the numbers of the patent application and approvals are the key index of national competitiveness. Consequently, the aim of the study is to explore the total efficiency of the IC industry in Taiwan. There are six indexes selected: three input variables (staff numbers, total assets, research and development expense), and three output variables (ROA, EPS, and patent number). The annual data (from 2002’s to 2005’s year reports of TEJ database) of the 42 companies of the IC industry in Taiwan are obtained. The research employs Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to evaluate the performance of innovative research and development of the IC companies. It adopts the DEA’s CCR model to calculate the TE (Technical Efficiency) and the BCC model to PTE (Pure Technical Efficiency) and SE (Scale Efficiency); and performs slack variable analysis to under the current utilization of resources and to determine the directions and degrees for improving. In addition, this study applies MPI (Malmquist Productivity Index) to investigate the efficiency changes of the IC companies with the cross-year data. Finally, according to research findings, the recommendations are provided for the IC related companies to improve their innovative research and development performance.
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