Advantage Management Strategy in Competition via Technological Race Perspective: Empirical Evidence from the Taiwanese Manufacturing Industry

الملخص EN

This study investigated the advantage management strategies of a firm regarding the technological race in the manufacturing sector.

This is to reveal whether firms adopt a catch-up or leapfrogging strategy in the competition for innovation.

The results show that competition is fierce in the Taiwanese manufacturing industry.

Taiwanese manufacturing firms (mostly SMEs) tend to adopt the “catch-up” strategy to keep up with their competitors in order to remain in the technological race.

The result indicates that, under financial constraints, Taiwanese manufacturing firms attempt to invest in R&D to catch up with their rivals or to avoid being eliminated from the race.