行政院國家科學委員會專題研究計畫成果報告:矽谷─新竹─上海的連結：全球化高科技生產網絡中的介面區域
Date Issued
2003
Date
2003
Author(s)
DOI
912415H002029
Abstract
This research aims to explore the
possibilities and limitations of the role played
by the interface region in the cross-border
economic activities. In the globalizing
economy, cross-border business network
prevails and constitutes the channels to
engender coupling/decoupling effect for each
connecting regions. Interface is defined here
as a hybrid space where two divergent social
and geographical organizations collide and
articulate to create the tensions and
opportunities in the interconnected economic
system. In other words, it is an organizational
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field that engages the contrasting but
overlapping socio-economic spaces. As
Taiwan’s high technology industries grew by
benefiting from the connection with the
technology hub, Silicon Valley, it has
extended the production networks to China,
particularly Shanghai City and the
neighboring regions, since late 1990s. In the
cross-border networks, Taiwan’s high-tech
firms take advantage of huge stock of
business experiences, which was
accumulated in the dense connection with
Silicon Valley in more than two decades. At
the same time, Hsinchu firms make the most
of the cultural and language affinity to reduce
transaction costs and entry barriers of doing
business in China. In the sense, it plays well
as the middleman in the triangle connection.
The Taipei-Hsinchu corridor region
transformed itself as the node of knowledge
flow with the high technology hub,
particularly Silicon Valley of California,
through the channel of transnational technical
communities. At the same time, the Region
also played as the headquartering role in the
extension of production chains which cross
the Taiwan Strait to concentrate in the major
coastal cities in Mainland China, such as
Shanghai. In consequence, it led the
Taipei-Hsinchu region to grow as the nodal
city in the cross-border connections.
However, numerous issues of governance
had to be tackled down for the role to
activate, including the solution of the conflict
between Taipei City and other regions in
Taiwan, the easing of political tension across
the strait and the open flow of talent and
capital to keep industrial upgrading.
Otherwise, as the direct connection between
Silicon Valley and China’s major cities such
as Shanghai grew faster, the role of interface
city would face the peril of crowding out,
unless it kept upgrading in the functional role
to serve the business networks.
Subjects
cross-border production networks
governing mechanism
interface region
Globalization
territorialization
SDGs
Publisher
臺北市：國立臺灣大學地理環境資源學系暨研究所
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