The Evolution of Competitive Advantage in the Worldwide Semiconductor Industry, 1947–1996

Langlois, Richard N.; Steinmueller, W. Edward

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“…3 2 For a detailed history and analysis of the fall and rise of the American semiconductor industry, on which the remainder of this paragraph draws, see Langlois and Steinmueller (1999 Macher, Mowery, and Hodges (1999), pp. 252 and 266).…”

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Competition through institutional form: the case of cluster tool standards

Langlois

2006

Standards and Public Policy

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“…Due to increasing costs of developing new technologies for the production of integrated circuits, the semiconductor sector is the second largest investor in R&D and the most R&D intense sector with regards to sales (National Science Board 2014). Scientific methods and practices are widespread and firms have critically contributed to the fundamental understanding of conductivity (Langlois and Steinmueller 1999;Lim 2004). Basic research in the industry covers a wide range of disciplines, ranging from solid-state physics, quantum mechanics, and basic chemistry to nanotechnology and quantum computing, and has backed fundamental shifts in dominant designs and production processes throughout the whole industry.…”

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“…The first contribution of our study is the focus on one single sector which allows us to understand how sectoral dynamics affect the publication behavior of firms. The semiconductor sector makes for an interesting setting because of its high R&D intensity and the extensive use of scientific methods and practices (Langlois and Steinmueller 1999;Lim 2004;Cohen et al 2002).…”

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Changing of the Guard: Structural Change and Corporate Science in the Semiconductor Industry

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2016

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Die Dis cus si on Pape rs die nen einer mög lichst schnel len Ver brei tung von neue ren For schungs arbei ten des ZEW. Die Bei trä ge lie gen in allei ni ger Ver ant wor tung der Auto ren und stel len nicht not wen di ger wei se die Mei nung des ZEW dar.Dis cus si on Papers are inten ded to make results of ZEW research prompt ly avai la ble to other eco no mists in order to encou ra ge dis cus si on and sug gesti ons for revi si ons. The aut hors are sole ly respon si ble for the con tents which do not neces sa ri ly repre sent the opi ni on of the ZEW. AbstractThis article documents a structural change in the production of science in the U.S. semiconductor industry over almost three decades. We observe a change in scientific productivity over time, where smaller firms publish more articles per dollar in R&D. Moreover, our results show a positive relationship between the value of intangibles and scientific publications, driven by basic research results. These effects are especially strong among Fabless 'design' firms and among firms in the post-PC era of semiconductor manufacturing, in line with a premium for smaller firms which invest in science in times of structural technological change. JEL-Classification: O31, O33

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“…Until recently, the tacit assumption of most commentators had been that Japanese success was the result of some combination of (1) Japanese industrial structure, understood as superior to American industrial structure in a very general or even absolute sense, and (2) Japanese industrial policy, understood as a highly intentional -and even prescient -system of government-industry planning and control. Langlois and Steinmueller (1999) suggests a somewhat different picture.…”

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Organizing the Electronic Century

Langlois¹

2007

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This paper's title is an echo of Alfred Chandler's (2001) chronicle of the electronics industry, Inventing the Electronic Century. The paper attempts (A) a general reinterpretation of the pattern of technological advance in (American) electronics over the twentieth century and (B) a somewhat revisionist account of the role of organization and institution in that advance. The paper stresses the complex effects of product architecture and intellectual property regime on industrial organization and technological change. Whereas large research-oriented multidivisional firms always played a crucial role in the industry's history, such firms proved most adept at systemic innovation, as in the case of television. But, as in the cases of early radio and of the IBM 360 mainframe computer, the multidivisional firm was capable of bottling up within its boundaries (often through intellectual property rights) a relatively modular architecture whose "option value" such firms could not fully exploit. America's adherence to the model of industrial research within the vertically integrated corporation arguably contributed to the demise of American consumer electronics in the 1970s and 1980s. And America's subsequent relative success in semiconductors and personal computersand in today's converged digital consumer electronics -owes much to the specialized and "fragmented" character of American industry, which could take fuller advantage of competitive global value chains and of the option value of modular architectures.Journal of Economic Literature Classification: L2, L63, N62, O33, O34

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The Evolution of Competitive Advantage in the Worldwide Semiconductor Industry, 1947–1996

Cited by 133 publications

References 2 publications

Competition through institutional form: the case of cluster tool standards

Competition through institutional form: the case of cluster tool standards

Changing of the Guard: Structural Change and Corporate Science in the Semiconductor Industry

Organizing the Electronic Century

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