题名

A Survey for Technological Innovation in Taiwan

DOI

10.6339/JDS.2003.01(3).182

作者

Hsien-Ta Wang;Tsui Mu;Li-Kung Chen;Tzy-Mei Lin;Chih-Ming Chiang;Hsin-Neng Hsieh;Yu-Ting Cheng;Ben-Chang Shia

关键词

technological innovation survey ; technology innovation activity ; R&D

期刊名称

Journal of Data Science

卷期/出版年月

1卷3期(2003 / 07 / 01)

页次

337 - 360

内容语文

英文

英文摘要

Statistical data on R&D development in Taiwan has been formally incorporated into the OECD/MSTI database (Main Science and Technology Indicators). Our surveys and analysis of R&D activities are clear and complete. However, the mode of development of the knowledge economy development, aside from the R&D activities themselves, depends on the production, circulation, and application of knowledge and/or technology. Direct relationship between the new knowledge produced by R&D activities and industrial sector products or manufacturing process innovations is difficult to visualize. R&D activities are high in risk, their outcome uncertain; there is no assurance that investment in R&D will yield innovative products for the marketplace. By contrast, enterprises without any investment in R&D activities can still bring out products that are new in technology.Thus, the EU began for the first time to develop Community Innovation Survey (CIS) in the 90's. The main goal was to collect data on how enterprises in different countries invest in the technology innovation process, and on the products of this process. The results of the analysis of such surveys can make contribution to the development of innovation policies and to the spread and transfer of new technology. The industrial structure of Taiwan is composed mainly of small and medium-size enterprises, accounting for 98% of all enterprises. Major R&D activities is concentrated in larger organizations, as the 300 largest domestic enterprises account for about 70% of R&D activity spending. According to the results of the first Taiwan Technological Innovation Survey (TTIS I), in the three years from 1998 to 2000, overall 50.2% of business enterprises engaged in technology innovation activity. In this survey, the definition of ”technology innovation activity” of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) was used (for enterprises with over 20 employees, the results were weighted according to the number of enterprises in a stratum). The figures for the manufacturing sector and service sector were 51.1% and 49.3% respectively.Looking at the results weighted for number of employees, in the three years from 1998-2000, for all enterprises with 20 employees or more, approximately 63.7% of employee had engaged in technology innovation activity; the figures for the manufacturing and service sectors were 68.3% and 58.6% respectively.For funds spent on innovation activity, in the year 2000, the total invested by enterprises with 20 employees or more was approximately 563.86 billion NT$, which accounted for 2.81% of the total revenues of these enterprises. This is an underestimate. Looking specifically at the manufacturing sector, technology innovation activity spending accounted for 4.08% of revenues, versus 1.84% for the service sector.As for constraints on innovation, or factors hampering innovation, the most important factor was the lack of appropriate technology and the percentage of R&D employee. The second most important factor was excessiveness of economic risk. Most of an enterprise's main information sources come from customers or consumers; the next most important was the internal part of the company.

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