How technology policy facilitates technology diffusion and improves firm capability: a dynamic survey from a network perspective |
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Authors: | Hsin-mei Lin |
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Institution: | 1. National Chinan University – International business #22 , Lane 111, Husi-Nan Road, Taichung, Taichung, 40679, Taiwan hmlin@ncnu.edu.tw |
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Abstract: | Strategic alliances have been regarded as a potent tool of technology policy for the advancement of research and development (R&D) in developing countries. However, the effectiveness of this ‘visible hand’ has not been dynamically understood as a useful means of building up firm capability. To see how strategic alliances help small-sized firms improve their competitive advantage, this research investigates a government-supported strategic alliance for technology development. Using a two-stage model from the network perspective and methodology, the results show that via a government-sponsored strategic alliance, the network factors embedded in the alliance significantly help the firm develop a competitive advantage by facilitating technology diffusion among alliance members and improved firm-level technology capability. Thus, technology policy in the form of strategic alliances appears to serve as a ‘visible hand’ that homogenously upgrades firm technology capability and diffuses technology. |
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Keywords: | technology policy technology diffusion technology capability network cohesion structural equivalence |
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