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Tracing National and Global Forces in a Taiwanese SME's Product Innovation

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Summary, in English

Taiwan's competitiveness in the global arena has often been attributed to the country's dynamic small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). In the most recent decade, the Taiwanese government has increased support to innovative SMEs, and with the emergence of new fields such as biotechnology, companies with highly innovation-driven agendas are surfacing. The innovation focus provides not only new opportunities but also challenges for Taiwanese SMEs. In this article I aim to increase the understanding of how national and global forces affect SME innovation in Taiwan. To this end, I use an industrial network approach to trace the national and global interdependencies that follow the network of a Taiwanese SME in the biopharmaceutical sector.

Publishing year

2012

Language

English

Pages

36-52

Publication/Series

The Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies

Volume

30

Issue

1

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Copenhagen Business School

Topic

  • Other Social Sciences

Keywords

  • SME
  • innovation
  • network
  • Taiwan
  • triangulation

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1395-4199