The Rise of Korea's Electronics Industry: Technological Change, Growth, and Territorial Distribution
研究了韩国电子产业两次出口驱动的起飞，强调技术变革和低成本劳动力优势，并发现地域分布对产业整合的影响大于时间因素。
The growth of Korea's electronics industry has been characterized by two major takeoffs that have turned this nation into a major global producer in less than two decades. These export-driven takeoffs involved rapid technological shifts that emphasized production in different electronics sectors and utilized Korea's most significant international advantage, low-cost labor. In this process, Korea's territorial division of labor has played a major role, promoting substantial concentration in the primate metropolitan region during each takeoff, while a process of dispersion occurs during intertakeoff periods. Statistical tests with a representative sample of electronics plants show that territorial location is a far more important determinant of interregional and local integration than the temporal parameter. A narrow focus on takeoff dynamics that does not incorporate the territorial dimension would therefore provide an inadequate explanation of Korea's emergence in electronics production and of the domesti...