Friday, April 24, 2009

Various Modes of Technology Transfer at Samsung Semiconductor

Lacking any technological base, Samsung initially had to rely on foreign sources, employing the various modes of technology transfer. Samsung’s path of technological capability accumulation in semiconductors has centered both on production and design technologies, developing the solid in-house R&D capacity. Samsung has accumulated tacit and explicit technology knowledge, and the temporal pace of technology catch-up was shortened...

Samsung has successfully employed various mechanisms of capability accumulation: reverse-engineering, reverse brain drain, licensing agreements, M&A and strategic alliances with competitors...

The informal mechanism seemed to be more important than the formal mechanism in gaining tacit knowledge which played an important role in assimilating and improving transferred knowledge...

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