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

Table 1

Research databases.

Databases	Data	Period	Number of firms
TTIS II; (Second Taiwan Technological Innovation Survey)	Manufacturing Industry Classification	2003–2007	10,000
DGBAS (Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics, Executive Yuan, R.O.C (Taiwan))	Manufacturing Industry Classification	2003–2007	—^†
Department of Statistics, Ministry of Economic Affairs	R&D turnovers ratio	2003–2007	142,500
TIPO; (Taiwan Intellectual Property Office)	Patent	2003–2007	40,000
TIES; (Taiwan Industry Economics Services)	Industry	2003–2007	640,000

Source: TTIS II, TIPO, TIES, Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics (DGBAS) from Executive Yuan, R.O.C (Taiwan), and Department of Statistics, Ministry of Economic Affairs.
^†DGBAS is used only for the classification of the Taiwanese manufacturing industry.