Industrial Cluster and Innovation in the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Industry Inventor Viewpoint

• Main Authors: Yi-Yin Huang, 黃怡愔
• Other Authors: Yu-Lin Chen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/x4f7q8

碩士 === 中原大學 === 會計研究所 === 98 === Innovation is the optimization of the value chain for improving the value and utility. Porter (1985) pointed out that the innovation will affect the industrial structure and competitive advantage, making technology strategy into an enterprise’s elements of the competitive strategy, and when challenging strong rivals, innovation is the main form to attack. Since the enterprises in the cluster are geographically located at the same environment, they feel stronger pressure on the competition and market opportunity. However, because the moving of information and human resources are faster, the spillover of industry knowledge is promoted, and the industrial innovation advantage is also improved. This study investigates the influence of inventor’s behavior and industry cluster on the divergent innovation in semiconductor industry. The inventors in the semiconductor industry in Taiwan from 1996 to 2004 are taken as the research samples. The study found that the flowing of inventor has positive impact on the divergent innovation. But the flowing of inventors in the cluster of Hsinchu Science Park, because of the isomorphy phenomenon, will bate the increasing effect of divergent innovation. In addition, cooperation between the inventors has not a positive influence on the divergent innovation, indicating there may be the conflicts on the ideas between the inventors or they may keep the previous ideas and can not enter the new technique field. Inventors’ cooperation in the cluster of Hsinchu Science Park, because of isomorphy phenomenon, will bate the increasing effect of divergent innovation. Finally, the observation of Hsinchu Science Park is taken vertically and horizontally to investigate the increasing effects on divergent innovation. The result shows that inertia phenomenon of the horizontal moving or cooperation is not more than vertical ones.