Chapter 14 Section IV Summary

After researching this series of manufacturers, we found that a long history and strong capital are not sufficient conditions for the success of the lighting industry.Rapidly rising young companies such as Nichia Chemicals, Seoul Semiconductor, and Taiwan's Yiguang Electronics have proved that an accurate grasp of the nature of the industry is the key factor.When the new wave of reform of LED lighting technology comes, these young companies have made great efforts to control the core technology through various efforts, and through applying for patents, they will compete with other companies with advanced technology. Cross-swap forms a patent pool and builds industry barriers to achieve centralization.At the same time, decentralization is used to obtain broader market coverage and technological advantages.Find a balance between the trade-offs between centralization and decentralization, and maximize the effectiveness of technology.

In contrast, the current development ideas of China's lighting companies are chasing after the basics and still doing gimmicks in marketing, but they have never gained control of the core technology, let alone the upstream part of the industrial chain that has the most lasting value.The patents of some Chinese LED companies are limited to extremely subdivided fields such as appearance design and lighting design, and some even cover some niche technologies. Compared with the concentration and wide coverage of upstream core patents, downstream application-level patents are relatively scattered. Not tall enough to have the ability to centralize power.Therefore, even Op and NVC Lighting, which have done a good job in China's lighting industry, must rely on breakthroughs in mid-upstream technology if they want to achieve further breakthroughs in the lighting market. operate.Taking Opple and NVC as representatives to look at the prospects of Chinese companies, there is a long way to go to break through.