標題: Brokering knowledge in networks: institutional intermediaries in the Taiwanese biopharmaceutical innovation system
作者: Chen, Shih-Hsin
Egbetokun, Abiodun A.
Chen, Duen-Kai
科技管理研究所
Institute of Management of Technology
關鍵字: brokerage;systems of innovation;biopharmaceutical industry;intermediaries;social network analysis;Taiwan
公開日期: 1-一月-2015
摘要: The literature maintains that in the development models of the Asian tigers in the 1980s, policy-induced intermediaries played the key mediating roles in acquiring technology from abroad to enhance local capabilities. In this paper, we examined how the intermediaries fare in terms of their expected brokerage roles in the context of the Taiwanese biopharmaceutical sector. By applying social network methods to data on this specific sub-sector, we demonstrate that the intermediary organisations under-performed in terms of brokering the transfer and diffusion of foreign technologies. Two factors underlie this result: intermediaries need to possess sufficient capabilities to be able to drive the strategy of stimulating a science-intensive sector through foreign technology, and intermediaries alone are not sufficient for the success of this strategy. We conclude that, instead of heavily relying on intermediaries to act as brokers, enabling research organisations and firms to play more effective brokerage roles may be a more successful strategy to develop a science-intensive sector such as biopharmaceuticals.
URI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJTM.2015.072978
http://hdl.handle.net/11536/129439
ISSN: 0267-5730
DOI: 10.1504/IJTM.2015.072978
期刊: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT
Volume: 69
Issue: 3-4
起始頁: 189
結束頁: 209
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