Output value of Knowledge Intensive Services in Taiwan ranking 3rd place in Asia

    According to the data revealed by the National Science Board (“NSB”) in 2002, the output value of Taiwan’s knowledge intensive services amounted to 820.5 hundred million US dollars, following Japan and Mainland China only among Asian countries and with prosperous potential.  The Council for Economic Planning and Development of the Executive Yuan will make research and draw up prospective plans and strategies for the Knowledge Intensive Services with prosperous developing potential in Taiwan.

  The Knowledge Intensive Services in Taiwan can be broken down into the following four categories: “Traditional services” (including financial services and other industrial and commercial services), “R&D supporting services” (including assessment of intellectual property rights, management and brokerage, R&D industry, technology trading and brokerage services, investment funds, information analysis services, vocational education services, etc.), “R&D peripheral services” (industrial design services, specialized test and authentication services, etc.), and “Technology services” (communication services, SCM services, automation services, logistics services and e-commerce, etc.).  The OECD defines that the Knowledge Intensive Services is the industry where technologies, manpower and capitals are invested intensively, and also regards knowledge intensive services as one of the knowledge intensive industries, covering transportation and storage, as well as communication, financial insurance, industrial and commercial, social and individual services.

Translated by Corrina Wu