Using the evolutionary framework of inductive screening, this paper seeks to examine the drivers of technological catch-up in the integrated circuits (ICs) industry in Taiwan and China. The paper shows that IC manufacturing began with multinationals relocating export-oriented assembly operations...

This paper examines the consequences of the mid-1980s economic crisis on technological change and the international division of labour in the semiconductor industry in Penang. Consistent with orthodox Marxist economists increasing capital-labour ratios targeted at rising productivity through...