The evolution of knowledge spillover and assignee cluster in semiconductor industry
Journal
PICMET '10 - Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology, Proceedings - Technology Management for Global Economic Growth
Pages
2636-2645
Date Issued
2010
Author(s)
Abstract
Because of technology-driven and capital intensive characters of the semiconductor industry, it is significant but arduous for most companies to proceed by themselves with technology development and innovation. It is clear that innovation can be regarded as an interactive process, which requires collaborative relationships among different agents of the processes. Thus, the goal of this study is to scrutinize and characterize the dynamic evolution of involuntary knowledge spillover (patent citations among assignees) and voluntary knowledge spillover (assignees as joint owners/co-assignees) in this industry. By using Unite States patents divided into three periods (six-inch, eight-inch and twelveinch microchips), the researchers of this study have discovered that the patent growth of this industry has been significant over the period of time from 1997 to 2004. The "Core Actor" included seven assignees with higher knowledge in/out flows in both the eight and twelve inch periods, such as enterprises of AMD, IBM, INTEL, MICRON TECHNOLOGY, SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS, TSMC TAIWAN, TOSHIBA. Among eleven assignee clusters across eight and twelve inch periods formed by co-assignees with the voluntary knowledge spillover, there were nine clusters, which were all Japan assignees, suggesting a closer relationships existing in the field of this industry in Japan. © 2010 IEEE.
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Other Subjects
Collaborative relationships; Dynamic evolution; Interactive process; Knowledge spillovers; Micron technologies; Patent citation; Samsung electronics; Semiconductor industry; Technology development; Toshiba; Economics; Industrial management; Industry; Patents and inventions; Semiconductor device manufacture; Semiconductor growth; Technology; Innovation
Type
conference paper