Technical edge for competitive advantage by patenting: A study of Indian semiconductor industry

Every successful organization is a masterpiece of some brilliant minds and skills of knowledge workers. This can be seen in the fields like Pharmaceuticals, IT, Telecom, Electronics, Electricals Bio-technology, etc. They all emphasized on newer and competitive innovations resulting into patents for upliftment of their enterprises. This paper also tries to explain one such aspect of semiconductor industry. This paper establishes a relationship of patenting with competitive edge in the global market. The study is based on the analysis of selected 20 Indian semiconductor product manufacturing companies. On the basis of the results from data collected, it has been observed that the firms with more inclination towards technical edge through newer innovations are leading a competitive and comfortable advantage in global market. This added advantage happened due to increase in the number of patents by the companies. This result is supported by almost all the sample companies whether from telecom or electronic industry.