Taiwan's Entrepreneurs and International Coordination: Evolution of Global Production Network in Electronics and IT Industries

Abstract

This study applies the concept of coordinating entrepreneurship to explain the emergence of global production network. More specifically, this study explains and illustrates how Taiwan-born technopreneurs move between Silicon Valley and Taiwan's Hsinchu, thereby promoting Taiwan's computer and information technology (IT) industries. With their entrepreneurial spirit and social network, Taiwan-born technopreneurs even turn Dongguan, a farming village in south China, into a modern IT industrial city. This paper concludes that as a result of the coordinating efforts of these entrepreneurs, electronics and computer plants scattered around the globe are integrated into a global production network, as illustrated by IT firms in Silicon Valley, Hsinchu and Dongguan.     

拷贝硅谷:一种聚集网络理论解释

介绍了目前在关于拷贝硅谷问题上国内外不同的观点,提出聚集网络理论。在此基础上,通过对韩国大德科学城和我国台湾新竹科学工业园的成功实践考察,提出了它们各自成功发展高技术产业的原因,在于根据各自的实际所形成的市场性和建构性、网络资本和风险资本网络的有机结合,适应了高技术发展的本质要求。认为我国应注重网络资源管理,营造风险资本网络体系发展的环境。     

技术社区视角下新竹IC产业的发展及对张江的启示

技术社区对于高新技术产业升级和发展具有重要意义。在介绍台湾技术社区形成的基础上,分析其在新竹IC产业发展中的推动作用。主要表现在:推动IC产业融入全球生产网络、传递技术和信息、推动产业分工协作、改善海峡两岸产业联系等。技术社区对张江IC产业的技术进步起到了一定促进作用,但也存在一些问题。研究认为新竹在利用技术社区资源推动IC产业发展一些启示,可为上海张江构建张江—新竹—硅谷之间技术和商业联系,加快IC产业的升级和创新提供借鉴。     

The Story-lines of Technological Change: Innovation,Construction and Appropriation

The paper contrasts three story-lines of technological change, which represent three different ways to think about technology as a social process. Each story-line, or discourse, or narrative strategy, has its own special terminology and is derived from particular academic fields and intellectual traditions. And each has different ways of considering the forms of social agency that are relevant in relation to technological change. For the story-line of innovation, the relevant agents are the producers of commercial products, often referred to as systems of innovation; for the story-line of construction, agency is conceptualized as those particular actors that have an interest in a particular artifact and its promulgation. For the story-line of appropriation, the social agency is differentiated into various user communities. When we analyze the relations between technology and society, it is important to know which kind of story we are telling and which story-line, or narrative strategy we are following.     

硅谷模式的模仿与创新——以新竹和班加罗尔为例

硅谷模式是世界各地科技园区效仿和推崇的对象.基于对硅谷模式模仿与创新的视角,以我国台湾新竹科学工业园和印度班加罗尔软件技术园为例,剖析了两大科技园区的成功经验,以期为我国科技园区的可持续发展提供有益参考.