Document Type

Post-Print

Publication Date

2005

Subjects

Semiconductor industry, Technological innovations -- Management, Technology -- Management, Interorganizational relations

Abstract

In the recent generations of semiconductor devices, the semiconductor industry has been accelerating towards the limits of the physical sciences. As a consequence, technology managers in that industry face seven major challenges, which will threaten progress: process, complexity, performance, power, density, productivity, and quality / reliability. We believe that confronting these challenges requires a new approach to technology management both within organizations and between organizations that form the backbone of the industry. We call this new approach Acceleration Management. Acceleration Management first requires that firms cultivate deep technical knowledge and inspire creative solutions to seemingly insoluble technical problems. The second stage of Acceleration Management requires the necessary expertise to be pooled, which often demands inter-organizational cooperation. This paper explores these managerial imperatives and analyzes how new semiconductor firms--particularly in China--have created niches in the value chain even during a tumultuous time in the industry's history.

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Paper delivered at the Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET), Portland, Oregon, August 2005.

This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication Technology Management: A Unifying Discipline for Melting the Boundaries. A definitive version was subsequently published in Technology Management: A Unifying Discipline for Melting the Boundaries and can be found online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2005.1509696

Copyright 2005 by PICMET

DOI

10.1109/PICMET.2005.1509696

Persistent Identifier

http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/11259

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