碩士 / 國立臺灣大學 / 經濟學研究所 / 94 / Abstract
Under the pressure of global competition and the rising economy of Mainland China, Taiwan’s manufacturers have increased their proportions for oversea production in order to decrease production cost and to expand foreign market. To achieve these goals, to increase production’s added value via knowledge economy and R&D activities has become the most critical issue among Taiwan’s manufacturers. Taiwan’s government has also taken several actions in this regards to encourage manufacturers’ R&D activities. Several scientific parks have been constructed to promote R&D via industrial agglomeration, knowledge spillover and technology diffusion. In this study, electric & electronic industry (EE industry) and transportation tool industry (TT industry) are selected to investigate the relationship between R&D and industry agglomeration, R&D agglomeration and individual manufacturer’s R&D activities. Major findings of this study can be summarized as follows.
1. EE industry has greater scale and R&D agglomeration than transportation industry.
2. Since EE industry has a high industry linkage, firms R&D activities are significantly influenced by R&D agglomeration. On the other hand, only transportation large firms are afford to conduct R&D activities. Transportation firms R&D are not subject to the influence of scale and R&D agglomeration.
3. Of the two industries, R&D activities increase with the increase in scale. Nevertheless, profitability is the most important determinant for R&D among electric & electronic firms, not among transportation firms.
4. In both industries, R&D activities increase with the increase of market concentration. We have also found that spillover effect from R&D is greater for related industries than the same industry for EE industry. This finding, however is not applicable to TT industry.
5. R&D activities of EE firms are not influenced by area characteristics. This is not true for TT industry firms.
In this study, we have found that the influence of industry agglomeration on R&D activities is related to industries’ characteristics. If government wishes to promote R&D activities via industry agglomeration by setting industry zones, factors other than individual characteristics, such as area differences industrial characteristics, and market scale, deserves a serious consideration
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/094NTU05389019 |
| Date | January 2006 |
| Creators | Yue-Mei Shieh, 謝玉玫 |
| Contributors | 林惠玲 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 84 |
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