Tiger Technology The Creation of a Semiconductor Industry in East Asia [Paperback]

This book examines the dynamics of the semi-conductor industry in East Asia.This book is the result of the authors' work with firms and institutions in Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia, inquiring into the micro-processes of firm-level organizational learning that underpin technology leverage in an industry such as semiconductors.This book is the result of the authors' work with firms and institutions in Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia, inquiring into the micro-processes of firm-level organizational learning that underpin technology leverage in an industry such as semiconductors.This book grows out of a five-year collaborative research project undertaken by the authors in East Asia. They have worked with firms and institutions in Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia, to inquire into the micro-processes of firm-level organizational learning that underpin technology leverage in an industry such as semiconductors. The processes investigated are not specific to microchips, but can be seen working in one knowledge-intensive sector after another. Mathews and Cho argue that indeed these are the processes that will shape industrial evolution in the twenty-first century, not just in East Asia but in the developed world as well. Tiger Technology concludes with an important observation - that wealth can be generated just as much through management of technology diffusion as through conventional concerns with innovation, provided the institutions of leverage are carefully constructed.List of figures; List of tables; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. The 'Real' East Asian Miracle: 1. Tiger chips: the rise of East Asia in the global semiconductor industry; 2. Technology leverage as latecomer strategy; Part II. National Institutional Pathways: 3. The Tangbun boom and the chaebol: how Korea did it; 4. A cat can look at a king: how Taiwan did it; 5. Jack and the beanstalk: how Singapore and Malaysia are doing it; Part III. The Technology Leverage Strategy: lsH