Development, flexibility and R &amp; D performance in the Taiwanese IT industry: capability creation and the effects of state-industry coevolution

Breznitz, Dan

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“…The 2004 output value of all Taiwan's locally-owned design companies was reported by the Taiwan Semiconductor Industry Association to be $8.15 billion. 57 While Taiwan's design teams were praised in our interviews for their execution, which is a vital trait in an industry where time-to-market is often the difference between profit and loss, Taiwanese companies were mostly fast followers, and locked in to some extent by their reliance on the local systems firms, who are themselves as much as a generation behind the leading-edge technology (Breznitz, 2005). However competition for chips using last-generation technology has shortened the market windows during which U.S. fabless companies can recoup their investments.…”

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Offshoring in the Semiconductor Industry: A Historical Perspective

Brown¹,

Linden²

2005

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Abstract:Semiconductor design is a frequently-cited example of the new wave of offshoring and foreign-outsourcing of service sector jobs.1 It is certainly a concern to U.S. design engineers themselves. 2In addition to the current wave of white-collar outsourcing, the industry also has a rich experience with offshoring of manufacturing activity. Semiconductor companies were among the first to invest in offshore facilities to manufacture goods for imports back to the U.S. A brief review of these earlier manufacturing experiences and their impact on the fortunes of the domestic industry and its workers can help to illuminate the current debates over offshoring in services.Because meaningful data about the impact of the offshoring of chip design (and even manufacturing) are limited, we rely on a more qualitative analysis for our key points. We have conducted dozens of interviews with engineers and managers at numerous semiconductor and related companies in the United States, Asia, and Europe over the past six years. Our research also incorporates the rich store of publicly available information in trade journals and company reports.This paper describes the two previous stages of offshoring semiconductor assembly jobs and of outsourcing semiconductor manufacturing and the impact they had on the U.S. semiconductor industry. We argue that the initial concern about losing domestic jobs in both stages turned out to be unfounded as the industry used the situation to its competitive advantage by becoming cost competitive (assembly stage) and by developing the fabless sector (manufacturing stage). We then analyze the on-going stage of offshoring design jobs, and compare this stage to the two that came before in order to explore the possible impact on domestic jobs and the U.S. semiconductor industry. We begin in section one with a brief description of the stages of semiconductor production and our analytical framework. Section two looks at the offshoring of assembly jobs, and section three analyzes the foreign outsourcing of manufacturing. Section four explores the offshoring of design jobs, and concludes with a discussion of what this means for the U.S.

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Offshoring in the Semiconductor Industry: A Historical Perspective

Brown¹,

Linden²

2005

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“…Taiwanese policy-makers cajoled MNCs to source components from local firms, many of which were newly formed, and encouraged them to learn while doing (see, e.g., Lowe and Kenney 1999). As the electronics industry became more sophisticated and diversified, the government established public research institutions to drive industrial upgrading (Breznitz 2005;Noble 1998). The most effective was the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), which would become a central institution in the development of the Taiwanese semiconductor industry but also undertook applied research on an enormous variety of industrially relevant topics (Tsai and Cheng 2006).…”

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Policies for financing entrepreneurship through venture capital: learning from the successes of Israel and Taiwan

Klingler-Vidra

Kenney

Breznitz

2016

IJIRD

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Abstract:The success of Silicon Valley as a hub for rapid-innovation growth has motivated policy-makers around the world to initiate policies trying to mimic it. These policy initiatives raise the question of whether globalisation should encourage innovation policy-makers to aim for institutional convergence and close imitation, or for institutional hybridisation and local experimentation. This paper explores this question by focusing on venture capital creation policy. Using two national cases, Israel and Taiwan, we show that policy effectiveness was not the result of simple imitation. Instead, policy performance is determined by degree of fit with local financial conditions and the position of the local ICT industry within global production networks. We then consider the implications of our study for understanding the development of national VC industries and the industries they fund with the primary message being that there is no singular model for venture capital market development. Instead, policy-makers need to understand the local context with its assets and liabilities. Of particular importance are local financing conditions, firm capabilities, and the existing position of local firms within the global production networks of the ICT industry.2

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“…BREZNITZ 2005BREZNITZ , 2007BUENSTORF 2007, FRITSCH/SCHINDELE 2010KLEPPER 2001A, 2001B, 2002KÖNIG/STEPHAN 2007, SANTARELLI/VIVARELLI 2007 and second, from literature on East and Southeast Asia that considers industry genesis, evolution and learning in late-industrialization (e.g. JOMO 2003, KIM 1999LEE/SAXENIAN 2007;LEE KEUN 2010;MASUYAMA et al 2001;SUNG/ CARLSSON 2003).…”

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“…With respect to both branching and post-emergence evolution a further contributory factor is endowment with a local supply of related entrepreneurial activity, knowledge externalities and skilled labour (BOSCHMA/FRENKEN 2009). As to elements included in the first part of Tab.1, the literature has addressed co-evolution (BREZNITZ 2005(BREZNITZ , 2007 …”

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Emergence through branching and evolution

Grunsven¹,

Witte²

2012

Zeitschrift Für Wirtschaftsgeographie

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Evolutionary economic geography proposes regional branching as a mode of industry emergence and development. It is claimed that branching enhances performance and evolution. In this article we investigate the relevance of regional branching and this claim in the context of Southeast Asia's late-industrialization. We report research into the industrial automation industry in Penang, Malaysia. We first demonstrate that the emergence of this industry conforms well to regional branching. We show that despite this mode of genesis, industry development has stalled at an early stage and its evolution shows bifurcation: amongst the firms there are growers but alsoand substantially more -stagnators. We offer a framework for understanding regional branching in late-industrialization context and for understanding differential performance/evolution. Applying this framework to our research context we find that regional branching, stalling, and the occurrence of stagnators and only a few growers can be understood from factors and hampering/conducive circumstances at the levels of the industry, the region and individual firms.

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Development, flexibility and R & D performance in the Taiwanese IT industry: capability creation and the effects of state-industry coevolution

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Offshoring in the Semiconductor Industry: A Historical Perspective

Offshoring in the Semiconductor Industry: A Historical Perspective

Policies for financing entrepreneurship through venture capital: learning from the successes of Israel and Taiwan

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