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The Silicon Dragon is a systematic study of the growth of high-tech giants in the Greater China Region, depicting the success story of the microelectronics industry in Taiwan. The book examines the government policies that acted as catalysts to the growth of high-tech industries in Taiwan, along with the roles of high-tech "incubators" and government-administered science parks. The authors provide case studies of high profile companies including Acer, Philips Semiconductors and Macronix International, and interviews with key decision makers to highlight the corporate strategies adopted in response to government policies and global commercial demand. Finally, insightful narratives on the birth and growth of a government-fostered strategic industry are provided, as is a synopsis of the Asian contribution to the evolution of the global microelectronics development

The global microelectronics industry, which is on the leading edge of transnationalization, is restructuring production processes & labor markets in both advanced capitalist & Third World regions. Here, its impact in three countries -- France, Mexico, & the US -- is examined in order to contrast the division of labor (DofL) in First & Third World settings. Theoretical perspectives on the DofL based on the work of Emile Durkheim, Karl Marx, & Max Weber are discussed. The DofL in microelectronics on the basis of gender & national origin is also compared. Tendencies toward automation in the advanced capitalist regions, & toward relocation of labor-intensive mass-production to Third World countries, are identified. Also noted are trends toward a universal, gender-based DofL in which women are segregated into the lowest-paid, most hazardous positions. The influence of national origin on the DofL appears as a distinctly US phenomenon; the technical DofL is often intersected by ideological & social factors. 68 References. F. S. J. Ledgister

Der Beitrag vergleicht eine Reihe von Untersuchungen in Industrieländern hinsichtlich der Entwicklung der Mikroelektronik und computergesteuerter Fertigungstechnologie. Es werden Diffusionsmuster und deren Voraussetzungen analysiert, einige Ergebnisse dargestellt und künftige Analyseaspekte herausgearbeitet. (IAB)

Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables & Figures -- Dedication -- Preface -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. EXPANDING MARKETS, THE INTERNATIONAL FRAMEWORK & INDUSTRIAL POLICY -- 2. IDEOLOGY, STATE CONTROL & BRITISH INDUSTRIAL POLICY -- 3. MARKETS: TELECOMMUNICATIONS, COMPUTERS & MICROELECTRONICS -- 4. TELECOMMUNICATIONS -- 5. COMPUTERS -- 6. MICROELECTRONICS -- 7. COMPARATIVE STRATEGIES AND ALTERNATIVE MODELS OF INDUSTRIAL POLICY -- 8. CONCLUSION -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Index

Imec holds major lessons for the United States. Its ability to attract and retain leading companies to cooperatively develop cutting-edge semiconductor technologies in a fiercely competitive industry represents an outstanding model for international cooperative research.

Long before nanotechnology, the semiconductor industry was miniaturizing microelectronic components. Since the late 1950s, that industry's dominant material has been silicon. Yet there have always been competitors to silicon that supporters hope will upend the semiconductor industry. It is impossible to understand this industry without a more complete picture of these alternatives — how they come about, how they capture organizational support, why they fail. It is equally impossible to understand nanotechnology without a focus on these alternatives, since research communities devoted to perfecting them today form the backbone of the nanotechnology field. We trace the history of the longest lived silicon alternative — molecular electronics. Molecular electronics arose in the late 1950s as a visionary program conducted by Westinghouse on behalf of the Air Force. We attribute its failure to the difficulties inherent in matching a futuristic vision to a bureaucratically accountable, incremental program that could compete with silicon. Molecular electronics reappeared again at IBM in the 1970s and at the Naval Research Laboratory in the 1980s. In each of these incarnations, molecular electronics' charismatic champions failed to gain the organizational support to make it a mainstream technology. Only at the turn of the century, with new nanotechnology institutions and new models of industry—university collaboration, has some form of molecular electronics neared acceptance by the semiconductor industry.