Industrial and Corporate Change, Volume 10, Number 4, pp. 893-920
© 2001 Oxford University Press
The Silicon Valley–Hsinchu Connection: Technical Communities and Industrial Upgrading
Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-1850. anno{at}socrates.berkeley.edu
Department of Geography, National Taiwan Normal University. jinnyuh{at}cc.ntnu.edu.tw
Abstract
Silicon Valley in California and the Hsinchu-Taipei region of Taiwan are among the most frequently cited ‘miracles’ of the information technology era. The dominant accounts of these successes treat them in isolation, focusing either on free markets, multinationals or the role of the state. This paper argues that the dynamism of these regional economies is attributable to their increasing interdependencies. A community of US-educated Taiwanese engineers has coordinated a decentralized process of reciprocal industrial upgrading by transferring capital, skill and know-how to Taiwan, and by facilitating collaborations between specialist producers in the two regions. This case underscores the significance of technical communities and their institutions in transferring technology and organizing production at the global as well as the local level.
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