This article examines the technological capabilities that national organizations generated and accumulated along the long-term evolution of the miniaturization trajectory, the most important direction of change in the semiconductor industry. By building an original dataset of patents and using...

The informatics industry (ISIC 30 – office, accounting and computing machinery) is one of the fastest growing sectors in manufacturing in the World and in Brazil, and receives special tax breaks in Brazil (the so called “Informatics Law”). We investigate this sector after its...

L’évolution des productions des industries de haute technologie montre un écart croissant, à partir de la seconde moitié des années 1990, entre la zone euro et les États-Unis, en faveur de ces derniers. En revanche, le niveau des exportations est quasiment identique actuellement. Le...

The ICT production system that can be identified in the Province of L’Aquila consists of two segments: the remains of the L’Aquila electronic hub, which has been in crisis since the eighties, and the Marsican area, dominated by the Micron plant. Both clusters were generated by the...

This article employs the Malmquist index, a data envelopment analysis-type nonparametric technique, to decompose productivity growth into technical efficiency and technological change for Taiwanese IC-design firms. The results indicate that the increase in R&D productivity is mainly attributed...

China's emergence as a key player in the global electronics industry has ignited concerns among its East Asian neighbors. Upper and middle-income economies fear that China's rise is hollowing out their electronics industrial base. Lower-income economies worry that they cannot compete with...

In the early-to-mid 1990s technology alliances suddenly surged to unprecedented levels – roughly 300% growth per year from 1990 to 1995 – and then declined just as precipitously. This massive increase in alliance activity caused the crystallization of a giant component in the global...

Disclosures about R&D activities could potentially help market participants understand the future prospects of R&D intensive firms, but at the same time could be costly to make if the disclosure is related to proprietary information. I examine R&D-related disclosures made by R&D intensive firms...

Sharp declines in semiconductor prices are largely responsible for observed declines in computer prices. Although communications equipment also has a large semiconductor content, communications equipment prices do not fall nearly as fast as computer prices. This paper partly resolves the puzzle...

In this paper we present some preliminary evidence in support of an emergent base-line structural intellectual capital model. This is based on interviews with the chief executive officers of Irish software companies. The overall Irish software and telecommunications sector has established itself...