To explore the model of China’s high-tech regions: evidences from the semiconductor industry in the Yangtze River Delta

• Main Authors: Fan, Shumin, 范淑敏
• Other Authors: Chou, Tsu-Lung
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/08665058941114750651

博士 === 國立臺北大學 === 都市計劃研究所 === 99 === This study aims to answer the question: "What specific institutional environment can effectively promote the continuous growth of local production networks?" Through three major issues, the emergence of Chin’s high-tech enterprises, regional technological learning and industrial upgrading, it explores the model of Chin’s high-tech regions building ,and explains under what special institutional environment may affect the development and upgrading of China’s high-tech regions. The major findings are that Shanzhai market from China’s specific institutional environment helps to increase the efficiency of technological learning and the external effects of industrial clusters in the Yangtze Delta River. This study also finds that there are three specific characteristics of China’s high-tech regions building: (1) Regarding the emergence and growth of China’s high-tech enterprises , the state still plays a dominant role in resource allocation, but interventions vary over time. (2) Technological learning of the Yangtze River Delta has been restrained by the cross-strait relations to some extent. (3) The rise of the China’s Shanzhai market. The former two comes from the strategic options of the state and transnational capital, but the formation of industrial network structure is often viewed as “technological enclaves” that industrial networks are fragmented. The latter one is accidental, but rather makes local industrial chains complete. In theory, most of the empirical studies about local upgrading in less developed countries highlight the importance of global leading enterprises. However, this study suggests the opportunities and possibilities of local upgrading come from China’s domestic enterprises. The key of local upgrading is how they can response to the demand of domestic market and how they can cooperate and learn each other to accumulate their capital and technology.