| Summary: | 碩士 === 大葉大學 === 管理學院碩士在職專班 === 98 === In this study, using the United States Patent and Trademark Office's patent database to retrieval and the global top ten IC design companies in 2008 is the research object.
The Revealed Patent Advantage index is converted by IPC classification to meas-ure each company's technical capabilities. The research methods conducted in this study are the multi-dimensional scaling to position the patent technology position of compa-nies, the regression analysis to determine the technical strength of companies. Finally, the methods applied to classify various groups are the cluster analysis and discriminant analysis. The main findings are as following:
1. After converting the Revealed Patent Advantage index, it is found that each company has the advantage in different technology fields.
2. In the perceptual map of the technical positioning, the ten IC design companies are divided into three groups. The group 1 is the "electrical communication technology profession group" and Qualcomm belongs to it. The group 2 is the "basic electronic circuits profession group" and Broadcom, MediaTek, Marvell and Avago are in this group. The group 3 is the "multi-technology group" and the members are Xilinx, Altera, LSI, SanDisk and Nvidia.
|
|---|
