A Study on Industrial Clusters of IC Assembling and Testing Industry in Nantze Export Processing Zone

• Main Authors: Hui-Ju Wang, 王惠汝
• Other Authors: Shiann-Far Kong
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2006
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/63479390733788516764

碩士 === 國立成功大學 === 都市計劃學系碩博士班 === 94 === Abstract EPZ was established for 40 years from 1966.Under the background of NIDL, EPZs attracted foreign investment by preferential tax and cheap labour. Nevertheless, EPZs have transformed from agglomerate districts to clustering districts during the time of globalization. NEPZ is especially famous for it’s IC assembling and testing industry. It plays an important role during the economic growth in Taiwan, and has highly connections with Hsinchu Science Park which is famous for high technological cluster. The meteoric rise of Michael Porter’s cluster concept has taken policy-makers if not academics by storm in 1990. Government and regional policy-makers in many parts of the world have been beguiled by the possibilities promised for improving the competitiveness of their national and regional economies. Where Porter’s concept of clusters is used to describe mainly localized economic interactions, it is not therefore likely to contribute much to an understanding of the relationships between innovation and Industrial networks. The vagueness of his analysis of the geography of clusters is also highlighted. Evidence from previous studies(Simmie,2004; Romijn and Albu,2001 etc.) is used to suggest that national and international linkages and networks are just as significant as their local counterparts .It suggestes that the scholars studying cluster concepts should take more efforts on international linkages . As a result,there are several evidences from the study which are as follows: 1.The main reason of NEPZ cluster comes from the attractions of leader firms which attract other linkaged firms. 2.In the cluster,the IC assembling and testing firms highly agree with geographical strengthes of cluster concepts. 3.In point of the industrial networks,the importances of internationall networks and linkages are important even more than localized networks. 4.The evidences of the contribution of clustering to innovation are shown to benefit from national and international linkages and collaborations. 5.NEPZ’s clustering structure is a network in which ASE is the leader firm and it has formed interdependence with other linkaged firms inNEPZ.