The Cross-industry Spillover of Technological Capability: Korea's DRAM and TFT-LCD Industries

B-Tier
Journal: World Development
Year: 2008
Volume: 36
Issue: 12
Pages: 2855-2873

Authors (3)

Park, Tae-Young (not in RePEc) Choung, Jae-Yong (not in RePEc) Min, Hong-Ghi

Score contribution per author:

0.670 = (α=2.01 / 3 authors) × 1.0x B-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

Abstract

Summary Studies of Korea's Thin Film Transistor-Liquid Crystal Display (TFT-LCD) industry have emphasized the government policy, industrial organization, and the firm's strategy as key success factors. However, the fact that knowledge spillover, which tends to occur between highly technologically related industries, can lead to a reduction in innovation effort has been overlooked. We examined the technological relationships between Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) and TFT-LCD industries and investigated their spillover into the areas of technology, human resources and organization, and network. The results show spillover in capital control, technology, production and quality management, organizational systems, and key personnel. This implies that spillover effect in high technology firms may diversify their products due to existing technological capabilities.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:eee:wdevel:v:36:y:2008:i:12:p:2855-2873
Journal Field
Development
Author Count
3
Added to Database
2026-01-26