Dung-Sheng Chen's book is an important addition to the growing literature on the question of why late developing countries are catching up with advanced countries in the field of technology, especially through the mechanism of technology diffusion and innovation. Using the development in Taiwan's integrated-circuit industry and TFTLCD industry as examples, Chen examines the forces that shaped Taiwan'shigh-tech industry. He argues that the synergy of foreign technology and technology diffusion and innovation played a critical role, as did changes in organizational network. He approaches this question twofold: first, from a network governance structure, that of the trust relationships between organizations, and second, from the technology learning and development model, that of the trinity development model of technology introduction, technology diffusion and innovation.
