National Model of Technological Catching Up and Innovation: Comparing Patents of Taiwan and South Korea

Wang, Jenn-hwan; Tsai, Ching-Jung

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“…Many patents of Korea are owned by chaebols. It is the view that the SMEs of Korea have yet to gain technological capabilities that enable then to perform on par with Taiwan (Wang & Tsai, ). Many SMEs produce and supply to chaebols, and they are cautious of the risk of offending chaebols by operating beyond the latter's knowledge scope.…”

Section: Process Of Transition Toward Inclusive Growthmentioning

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Projecting the Arena of Inclusion: The Case of South Korea in Pursuing a Phased Inclusive Growth Process

Wong

Lee

2018

Review of Policy Research

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South Korea created a mechanism that fuels inclusive growth, a process that coevolves economic growth and social well-being. This study attempts to elaborate on the context and preconditions for development that would manifest salience policy implications for moving up the industrial value chain and attain inclusive growth. We contend against the view of simplified growth cum equity that is used to elucidate the success of Korea's socioeconomic development (economic miracles). Our findings informed us that there were intense measures taken throughout different phases of Korea's industrial development. In addition, we observed in many occasions intense negotiations between the state, firms, and civil society for social welfare and a better working environment. This led to a pursuit for inclusive growth in the post catching-up phase that blended together many inclusive agendas, realizing growth that coevolved industrial upgrading and social welfare. This article seeks to explain how Korea populated its arena of inclusion in the process of pursuing rapid industrialization. The overview of different phases of development provides normative principles that are useful as a guide for other economies which aspire to attain similar development.Proyectando la arena de inclusi on: el caso de corea del sur intentando un proceso de crecimiento incluyente y en fases Corea del Sur cre o un mecanismo que fomenta el crecimiento incluyente, un proceso que evoluciona conjuntamente el crecimiento econ omico y el bienestar social. Este estudio intenta contribuir al contexto y condiciones previas para el desarrollo que manifestar ıan ser implicaciones pol ıticas sobresalientes para subir por la escalera de valor industrial y llegar al crecimiento incluyente. Nos mantenemos en contra de la perspectiva del crecimiento simplificado con equidad que es usado para aclarar el suceso del desarrollo socioecon omico de Corea (milagros econ omicos). Nuestros hallazgos nos informaron que hab ıa medidas intensas que se tomaron a trav es de diferentes fases del desarrollo industrial en Corea. Adem as, observamos en muchas ocasiones negociaciones intensas entre el estado, las compañ ıas y la sociedad civil para el bienestar social y un mejor funcionamiento ambiental. Esto llev o a intentar tener un crecimiento Review of Policy Research, Volume , Number (2018) 10.1111/ropr.12286 V C 2018 Policy Studies Organization. All rights reserved. bs_bs_banner 35 4 590 incluyente en la fase post "ponerse al d ıa" que se mezcl o con muchas agendas incluyentes, lo que realiz o un crecimiento que coevolucion o el desarrollo industrial y el bienestar social. Este documento busca explicar c omo Corea llen o su arena de inclusi on en el proceso de una r apida industrializaci on. La perspectiva general de diferentes fases de desarrollo proporciona principios normativos que son utiles como gu ıa para otras econom ıas que desean llegar a un desarrollo similar. PALABRAS CLAVE: crecimiento incluyente, arena de inclusi on, crecimiento con equidad, ponerse al d ıa, Corea de...

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Section: Process Of Transition Toward Inclusive Growthmentioning

confidence: 99%

Projecting the Arena of Inclusion: The Case of South Korea in Pursuing a Phased Inclusive Growth Process

Wong

Lee

2018

Review of Policy Research

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“…Industrial policy, as the bastion of developmental state and, therefore, the manifest practice field for high modernists, is subjected to an intense gaze from the state. It was in this context that the Industrial Technology Research Institute 工業技術研究院 (ITRI) was established in 1973 to facilitate a 'coordinated and state-led developmental network' (Wang and Tsai 2009). According to Chen (2012), 'advanced technology' is the key goal of ITRI engineers, even if this means that the products from their projects might lack market attractiveness.…”

Section: Perennial Power Shortage and The Obsession With Growthmentioning

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The Making of Power Shortage: The Sociotechnical Imaginary of Nationalist High Modernism and Its Pragmatic Rationality in Electricity Planning in Taiwan

Yang

Szerszynski

Wynne

2018

East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Jo

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High modernism, the dominant sociotechnical imagination in postwar Taiwan, manifested itself in tacit answers to the questions of what a better society would look like, and the most pragmatic and viable approach to make the particular dreamed-of future become reality. This paper explores the exclusion of alternative energy futures brought about by a high modernist imaginary. This imaginary underlies a strategy of emphasizing shortage at present and prosperity in the future-as long as the current shortage is solved in a reliable way. Focusing on the contention over energy supply between 2011 and 2015, this paper provides an analysis of how power shortage is presented in discursive ambiguity, how the claimed crisis over electricity shortage moves to the centre of public debate via the institutional practices of power rationing, and how its public authority is established through collective witness. Renewable energy is continually represented as an 'immature' and 'unviable' technology when it comes to satisfying the nation's need, through particular routinised practices in the calculation of 'reserve margins' in electricity planning and the collective witnessing of (limited) 'operating reserves'. We argue that both of these come with their own assumptions and political implications and, therefore, invite scrutiny.

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“…On the other hand, for South Korea, not only have its branded chaebols gained international outreach but also the country has become a strong player in a few sectors characterised by closed product architecture and complex system (Choung and Hwang 2007). Even in the semiconductor industry, in which both countries have surged, institutional roots and technological regime can still account for their different paths, as evident in their US patents (Park and Lee 2006;Wang and Tsai 2010).…”

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“…As well-documented, from the perspective of economic development, latecomers' catch-up has much to do with their developmental strategy of export orientation versus import substitution, incorporating into the global production/innovation network, via learning and absorbing an external source of knowledge and accumulating and generating indigenous technological capabilities (Chen 2002;Amsden and Chu 2003;Ernst 2006). In the field of technology management, technological catch-up has become a focal issue and has been discussed in conjunction with several other factors, such as technological regimes (Lee and Lim 2001;Park and Lee 2006;Wang and Tsai 2010), the development of the equipment or capital goods industry (Mu and Lee 2005;Choung and Hwang 2007;Kim and Lee 2008), and indigenous industrial standards (Choung et al 2011;Choung and Hameed 2012;Gao 2014). Of interest to note is a sharp contrast between South Korea and Taiwan in their path and way of catch-up.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Some literature on technological catch-up has addressed this issue under the scenario of 'leapfrogging', and in conjunction with several other factors, such as technological regimes (Lee and Lim 2001;Park and Lee 2006;Wang and Tsai 2010), the development of the equipment or capital goods industry (Mu and Lee 2005;Choung and Hwang, 2007;Kim and Lee 2008), and indigenous industrial standards (Choung, Hameed, and Ji 2011;Choung and Hameed 2012;Gao 2014). In a word, leapfrogging can occur with a window of opportunity (Perez and Soete 1988), with which firms in a latecomer country have to effectively deal with the risk of choosing the right technology and that of initial market creation (Lee 2005).…”

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Post catch-up with market cultivation and product servicising: case of Taiwan’s transportation equipment industries

Chen

Wen

2016

Asian Journal of Technology Innovation

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This paper sets out to examine a key issue: how a latecomer like Taiwan may develop its industry in a post catch-up manner. We make intensive inquiries into this issue via case studies on two sectors in Taiwan, namely the bicycle industry and the electric vehicle (EV) industry. Our conceptual framework gives special account to fuzzy front-end at the industrial level and how market cultivation and innovative business models come to play an important role in shaping the innovation path for post catch-up. For leading players in Taiwan's bicycle industry, a key issue they faced was how to transform themselves and local setting in Taiwan to become a leader in high-end bicycles to fend off escalated international competition. In the emerging EV industry, the Taiwanese players try to overcome its structural weaknesses in the mainstream automotive industry to explore the possibility of levelling the playing field with the forerunners in the advanced countries. Our case studies suggest that technological catch-up is not necessarily a prelude to post catch-up, depending on the nature of new innovation trajectory and entry modes of the emerging industry. Our analyses also lend support to the importance of product servicising as a means of post catch-up, especially from the perspective of market cultivation.

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National Model of Technological Catching Up and Innovation: Comparing Patents of Taiwan and South Korea

Cited by 23 publications

References 42 publications

Projecting the Arena of Inclusion: The Case of South Korea in Pursuing a Phased Inclusive Growth Process

Projecting the Arena of Inclusion: The Case of South Korea in Pursuing a Phased Inclusive Growth Process

The Making of Power Shortage: The Sociotechnical Imaginary of Nationalist High Modernism and Its Pragmatic Rationality in Electricity Planning in Taiwan

Post catch-up with market cultivation and product servicising: case of Taiwan’s transportation equipment industries

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