Rise of Latecomer Firms as Platform Vendors

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26380353
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Economic policy
• Research Institution: Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization
• Principal Investigator: Kawakami Momoko 独立行政法人日本貿易振興機構アジア経済研究所, 地域研究センター, 次長 (30450480)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 後発工業国 / 産業プラットフォーム / 台湾企業

Outline of Final Research Achievements

“Industry platforms” are products, services, or technologies that serve as foundations upon which other firms can build complementary products, services, or technologies (Gawer 2009). Since the early 2000s, Taiwan has witnessed the emergence of local core component vendors that act as industry plat-form providers. This research project investigated the firm-level learning mechanism that made the emergence of these late-comer platform vendors possible. First, I explored the process of the rise of Taiwanese IC fabelss vendors into dominant suppliers of LCD TV SoCs, with a special focus on the mechanism of their knowledge acquisition. Second, I conducted intensive interviews to trace the co-evolution of business models of IC chip vendors located in Taiwan and Silicon Valley. Some of the research results are published as book chapters, and some are planned to be published as journal articleｓ and book chapter in FY 2018-19.

Free Research Field

地域研究、アジア経済論