Mobilizing resources to pursue technology commercialization: The role of bricolage

The purpose of this study is to study how Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI, a Taiwan-based public R&D organization) exploits internal and external resources to speed up the commercialization process of emerging technologies which, in turn, stimulate the development of new technology-based industries. We draw on the perspective of bricolage as well as the resource-based view, organizational routine and technology commercialization to develop our conceptual framework. Our research target is the comparative study of six Taiwanese industries: ICs, PCs, notebooks, HDDs, opto-storages, and TFT-LCDs.