혁신을 통한 한국 반도체 산업의 일본 추월 메커니즘 사례

The Catch-up Mechanism of Korea Semiconductor Industry through Innovation Process

In 1990s when Samsung`s semiconductor business began to rise, major changes have occurred such as high uncertainty of technology, sudden changes in market, and the increase in diversity. Those were entirely different from what have been since then. Samsung as a late-comer anticipated this new environmental change, taking into account the management resources of their own. In addition, he established appropriate strategy for its environment and began to move into the innovation process. More specifically, the strengthening of the process architecture team is conducted with the innovation of organization aimed at synchronizing marketing, development, and production. He, thus, made it possible to be equipped with the system of low-cost, accurate information, and high speed by reducing the mismatching risk of strategy and organization. This study sheds light on the importance of foresight for the internal and external change about the business environment and executing power of innovation, even in the hi-tech semiconductor industry which is prone to pursue only cutting-edge technology and the economy of scale. Moreover, it is worth to pay attention to the openness which is one of the thought-provoking fundamentals to support the innovation achieved by the innovators, the essential external resource.