Demand Chain Management Ontology For Innovation In Integrated Circuit Design And Manufacture Services

Integrated circuit (IC) design and manufacturing has been the focus of innovation to support a rapidly expanding and globalizing network economy. With the general trends toward a great variety of technology and global market settings, the need for active research on the demand creation and management to facilitate collaborative innovation has gain substantial attention.This paper aims to develop the demand chain management ontology for identifying market demand drivers and mechanisms that impact the value creation process. Based on a series of case studies of the IC design and manufacture service industries, we explore the potential of the ontology in addressing the heterogeneity of the demand and problem solving mechanism of an ontology-based support system. Previous studies have largely been characterized as static, production sector-oriented and lacking service sector comparative research. As a result, the demand characteristics related to the collaborative innovation in the IC design and manufacture service sectors have largely been unexplored. Through a set of in-depth case studies of the inter-firm networks on the evolving technology and business platforms, this research aims to develop an ontology-based demand creation and management system to capture the multiple innovation opportunities. The emphasis of the studies is on exploring the ontology transformation dynamics and organization innovation to enable multiple streams of value creation in the design and manufacture service creation and delivery process.