Research On The Late-comer Firms’ Technological Catching-up Capability Acquiring Path

The Latecomer Firms are the firms which are caused by double disadvantages of technology and market of historical conditions, but are also the firms to pursue technological progress actively. The path for the Latecomer Firms are to catch up the development of technology, and to enhance the ability to innovate is the only purpose of catching up technology. With the global economic development transferring to developing countries, the study to the Latecomer Firms are gradually from developed countries to developing countries, and increasingly focused on the issue like China and India. The catching up technology of the Latecomer Firms is relevant to the changes in the environment of technology and its own technological development. Many scholars have observed that technological development of the Latecomer FirmsOriginated in the introduction of technology, when the forced the Enterprise must introduce technology-input under the environment of weaker technology on its own and stronger on foreign powers. With the accumulation of scientific fact and development of management theory, the researchers began to realize that the single factor limits the enterprise during the developing process, and then gradually turned to the combined effects of systemic factors(environmental, political, and cultural factors of their own) attention.According to the basic theoretical framework on the development situation, the article choose some Latecomer Firms in high-tech industries, heavy industrial equipment and manufacturing industries of consumer goods to study the ability of catching up in different technical context from the perspective of development. The catching-up ability is the ability for the Latecomer Firms to learn and accumulate technical knowledge of the enterprise, which also can be transformed into independent innovation capability, an organic state to interact constantly with the outside world, to pose a systemic dynamic catching-up mechanism, and to build a theoretical model on this basis.Main research content: The first part of this article is to refine the five external factors in accordance with the principles of grounded theory, and with the situation on the technology catching-up of Taiwan Qimei Electronics. Then to divide it into three parts of the start-up phase, the improvement phase and the beyond phase of catching-up technology based on the actual situation of technological development to test the theoretical saturation.The second part is to select high-tech enterprises- Sichuan Changhong’s PDP technology import projects to study how to choose technology introduction for the Latecomer Firms with the complexity of the different features and technology transitions at all stages of technology development under complicated situations. The study found that start-up phase of technical complexity and the technology transition speed differ at different characteristic stages, to make a suitable selection from these mature features is the key to lay the technical ability of catching-up for the Latecomer Firms.The third part is to select two heavy equipment manufacturing enterprises, Dongqi and Xinkun, to study different collaborative innovation model under the modular technology research situation of the Latecomer Firms in leading and assistive technology. Study found that technical modules provide an opportunity for the modular technology to the Latecomer Firms, and different choice of collaborative innovation is the second stage of technological catching-up capacity.Select Consumer Goods for the fourth part to compare different cases, and find that during the beyond phase, the Internet-based on technology makes the platform of industrial structure and enables enterprise-scale borderless issued a new situation for catching-up,and the ability to use modern information technology to achieve catching-up is the decisive factor for the Latecomer Firms.The fifth part analyzes the results of theoretical saturation test of theoretical elements latecomer fiems technology to catch up with the ability to expand the model to five exogenous stimuli as Mediator, formed three development scenarios of technology, namely complicated situation, module situational context of the Internet and the auxiliary variables, the ability to catch up with technology in three phases to obtain different paths in technology start-up phase is to catch up with the ability to choose art as a major capability in technology to improve technical interoperability phase is dominant in technology beyond the stage, we must rely on information technology to obtain technical architecture capability. System dynamics mathematical modeling, simulation and testing. It was found that the ability to choose the technology to catch up after the technical segment, that is, after the enterprises to obtain certain technological capabilities, increase no change; technology and technical architecture interoperability ability rapid promotion. Thus demonstrating latecomer enterprise platform for future development is to enhance the ability to catch up with technology development.This paper mainly in the following three in-depth research and expansion:(1) latecomer firms in the initial stage of technological catch-up, the use of technical means is the main way to catch up with the introduction of the ability to obtain, but in the ability to obtain technology should pay attention to matching the complexity of its transition speed on the path selection. Complexity and transition speed does not match what the technology tends to decline instructions.(2) From the perspective of technology development, the technological change to different sizes latecomer companies also brought changes collaborative innovation model. Meanwhile, the different modes of collaboration to promote the continuous advancement of technology, both of which are common between evolution. First, the dynamic changes in the technical environment is collaborative innovation model the evolution of the fundamental motivation; Second, product evolution and diversification is the direct object of the collaborative innovation model evolution; finally, innovation networks and network potential of synchronous evolution of technological progress and collaborative innovation model the basic characteristics of evolution.(3) latecomer enterprise architecture innovation to catch up with the ability to acquire path, second neutral substitutions are common form, although the same result neutral replacement, but the future may be different. For consumer products companies both architectures innovation model, the key difference between the two modes is that the manner and extent of user involvement. Combination of the two models will become mainstream Internet platform architecture and manufacturing enterprise of open architecture with the future development of the Internet of Things, cloud computing and other technologies together, changing the value of the entire consumer goods manufacturing enterprises formed architecture, ultimately achieve accurate, platform, personalized production, the new structure is the future industry.