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Tommy Shih
Tommy Shih was a research fellow in Modern Taiwan Studies at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies at Lund University, Sweden between August and December 2009. He has studied business, with focus on industrial networks, at Uppsala University and his PhD dissertation from 2009 was titled "Scrutinizing a policy ambition to make business out of science : Lessons from Taiwan". The dissertation focused on the Taiwanese government's efforts to create a biotechnology industry in the wake of success of the semiconductor industry. Currently his research is concerned with research, innovation and industrial policy in Taiwan, and Japan, with a focus on the relation between science and business development.
Project description:
The promotion of industrial development and economic growth is a vital issue for governments all over the world. The ideals guiding policymakers in their endeavours are that innovations based on new and advanced knowledge are central for industrial and economic development. In this context an issue highlighted by local as well as national governments has been how to construct a system that can develop cutting-edge science and then transfer it to the business world for use. Although identified 'generic' features of successful regions such as Silicon Valley, have been copied there are few examples of how ambitions to 'artificially' create policy supported high-tech based business regions and industries have succeeded. But one of the few successful examples of policy created high-tech industries often mentioned is the Taiwanese semiconductor industry. The envisioned development path of the Taiwanese semiconductor industry forms the foundation of contemporary Taiwanese industrial and innovation policy. This industrial development model applied on biotechnology in Taiwan, however, has been widely criticized for not fulfilling its promises. This research project aims to increase the understanding of this observation and sets out to investigate how developed solutions and resources become produced and embedded in business using structures. The research is based on an empirical study of the industrialization of semiconductors and biotechnology in Taiwan, and is analyzed from a resource interaction perspective.
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