A Silicon Valley of the East: creating Taiwan's semiconductor industry

Article Abstract:

A thriving semiconductor industry has been created in Taiwan over the course of the past two decades by the use of advanced organizational techniques of technology leverage and accelerated technology diffusion. By the mid-1990s, the industry had reached a level of output that placed it behind only the U.S., Japan, and Korea. Almost all of Taiwan's semiconductor industry is located in the Hsinchu Science-Based Industry Park, which was created in emulation of California's Stanford Research Park, but with more direct government involvement. This article explores the extent to which this emergent Silicon Valley in Taiwan shares the "industrial ecology" that has powered innovation in California and examines the extent to which the Taiwan industry suffers from weaknesses attributable to its rapid creation through technology leverage. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Semiconductor Devices, Semiconductor and Related Device Manufacturing, Taiwan, Case studies, Industrial development, Industrialization, Growth industries

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Capital financing strategies of the Japanese semiconductor industry

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Many U.S. corporations have argued that Japanese semiconductor manufacturers have an unfair debt-to-equity ratio. However, it may be unfair to evaluate capital costs in Japan in the same terms as the U.S. The U.S. should develop financing arrangements that are consistent with the domestic economy.

Japan, Finance, Marketing, International trade, Technology, Semiconductors

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The American semiconductor industry and the ascendancy of East Asia

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The emergence and growth of the semiconductor industry in Eastern Asia is reviewed. Currently, the East Asian countries are viable trade and joint venture partners for the United States, but may in the new future become direct competitors.

United States, Analysis, Competition (Economics), History, Subsidiary corporations, Subsidiaries, Commerce, Asia, Eastern

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