Dissertation Resesearch: Technical Diversity and Technological Advice in the American Semiconductor Industry,1952-1965

9320048 Hounshell教授大卫Hounshell的指导下，丹尼尔霍尔布鲁克正在调查在半导体行业的技术知识的来源和动态及其对半导体技术的整体发展的贡献。 他假设，技术创新方法的多样性是半导体技术在行业早期快速和众多进步的核心。 技术机会很多，实际上有数百家公司从事一系列研究和开发项目。 虽然许多项目在技术和经济上都失败了，但所产生的知识有助于技术的全面进步。 技术发展的进化理论包括变异和选择模型;然而，大多数进化理论家集中在选择部分。 霍尔布鲁克先生正在探索变异的输入。 公司拥有的专门知识和技术知识的多样性决定了它们的研究和开发活动。 在半导体行业，专业知识和技术知识的多样性决定了技术创新的速度和方向。 各种创新活动往往对整个行业的发展起到补充或协同作用。 在调查了整个行业的技术发展之后，Holbrook先生专注于与集成电路发展相关的四个技术领域。 然后，他将探讨不同的技术知识所拥有的选定的公司，知识如何支配企业的R D项目的选择，以及这些选择的后果，为进一步的技术发展。 本研究希望能够阐明技术知识与创新之间的关系，以及技术知识的动态和增长问题。 它还在探索多样性在技术发展中的来源和重要性。 ***

9320048 Hounshell Under the direction of Professor David Hounshell, Daniel Holbrook is investigating the sources and dynamics of technological knowledge in the semiconductor industry and its contribution to the overall development of semiconductor technology. He hypothesizes that diversity in approaches to technological innovation was at the heart of the rapid and numerous advances in semiconductor technology during the early years of the industry. Technological opportunities were many, and literally hundreds of firms pursued an array of research and development projects. Although many of the projects were technological and economic failures, the knowledge produced contributed to the overall advance of the technology. Evolutionary theories of technological development include variation and selection models; most evolutionary theorists, however, concentrate on the selection portion. Mr. Holbrook is exploring inputs to variation. Diversity in expertise and the stock of technological knowledge possessed by firms shapes their research and development activities. In the semiconductor industry, this diversity in expertise and technological knowledge conditioned the rate and direction of technological innovation. Diverse innovative activities were often complementary or synergistic for the development of the entire industry. After surveying technological developments across the industry, Mr. Holbrook is focusing on four technological areas related to the development of integrated circuits. Then he will explore the diverse sets of technological knowledge possessed by selected firms, how knowledge governed the firms' choices of R&D projects, and the consequences of those choices for further technological development. This study promises to illuminate the relationship between technological knowledge and innovation as well as issues concerning the dynamics and growth of technological knowledge. It is also exploring the sources and importance of diversity in the evolution of technology. ***