The Southern Taiwan Science Park

[Hsuan-chu (Chloe) Lee]

The Southern Taiwan Science Park (STSP) includes Tainan Science Park (2,578 acres) and Kaohsiung Science Park (1,409 acres). On July 1, 1993, the 2,388th executive meeting of the Executive Yuan approved an Economic Revitalization Project in which the establishment of a science park in southern Taiwan was proposed. The STSP Development Plan (which covered the Phase I Site of the Tainan Science Park) by the National Science Council was approved by the Executive Yuan in May 1995 to mark the beginning of southern Taiwan’s high-tech development.
To help the Park enterprises within 1 kilometer of the High Speed Rail deal with the impact of vibrations, former Premier Chun-Hsiung Chang during his inspection of STSP on May 17, 2001 ordered that the Phase II Site of the Tainan Science Park be accelerated. The expansion plan was approved by the Executive Yuan on September 19, 2001.

As a matter of fact, I am not the export for science and industry but I would like to humbly share some of my personal opinions. During my research about all three science and industrial parks in Taiwan, the Southern Taiwan Science Park maintains the best official website to connect with people in six languages, including Chinese, English, French, Japanese, German and Spanish. (http://www.stsipa.gov.tw/web/indexGroups?frontTarget=ENGLISH)

Besides, there are several videos to introduce themselves and the overall statistics to show their performance. The sales of the park is mostly for integrated circuits ( for example, in 2011, the labor productivity per person is NT$14.4 millions = 387 thousands euros); and for optoelectronics is NT$ 8.32 millions = 223 thousands euros). Obviously, the labor productivity is highly valued and has been tracked.

Meanwhile, one section on the official website interests me the most is the employment of foreigners. Please see the description as below:

“ Application qualification and requirements

		1. The business in the science park has prepared the company establishment registration.  2. The technician or professional to be employed need one of following qualifications:
			(1)	One who has been awarded certificate or practice qualification in accordance with Professionals and Technologists Examination Act.
			(2)	One who has been awarded the master degree above of related department or graduate institute in domestic or foreign university, or the bachelor degree of related department or graduate institute and has more than 2-year work experience. However, to employ foreigners with bachelor degree above to engage in such professional or technician job as design to manufacture products or required by labor in order to promote industrial technology or R&D, operation management and related research, as well as business promotion and market investigation analysis in foreign special language area, may not be limited by work experience (subject to the official letter dated on March 9, 2004 of file No. Lao-zhi-gui-zi 0930003833)
			(3)	One who has worked with a multinational corporation over one year and designated to take office in Taiwan.
			(4)	One who has been professionally trained or studied independently for more than five-year related experience and has brand-new idea and special performance.
		3. The salary of employed technician or professional should not be less than the average monthly salary per person mentioned in the last issue of Professionals and Technicians of Industry and Service Industry regarding salary investigation of different trades and occupations announced by central authorities, now is NT$47,971(1289 euros). Note: I would say the general salary in Taiwan is NT$3,5000 (940 euros).

 

Lots of industries acclaim that they want to promote their competition by hiring foreign employees. As we can see from the official website, STSP really takes action. What’s more, they also know how to distinguish themselves from the others by saying their advantage aloud-

The Advantage of STSP: Superiorly embraced by two superhighways, Southern Taiwan's Science Park (STSP) located in historical Tainan, aims to be an advanced, multifunctional and multinational industrial park. Home to the most prominent TFT (thin film transistor) manufacturing chain and largest Biotech company in Taiwan, success has already firmly established itself there and comes as a reward that present and future companies can share alike. Explore some history surrounding the fascinating ruins displayed at the local museum or just relax outside on specially sculptured recreational areas designed to convey a sense of peace and tranquillity. Maybe you could also enjoy a picnic beside our artificial dam for this is a place of so much more than just manufacturing. STSP promotes progressive technology to help improve the quality of life. " If you take one more look at the STSP picture above, you would realize-the idea of quality of life, art and history is well presented by the design of the park.

[Hsuan-chu (Chloe) Lee]

First of all, the yellow "worm" is the idea of public art. The park tries to connect the art and the technology to welcome visitors. Actually, it is supposed to be a flying ribbon! :)Second, the largest biotech company in Taiwan is "ScinoPharm Taiwan," whose business capital is valued more than 170.28 million USD and business scope is focused on active pharmaceutical ingredients.  If you are interested, please visit the website for more information.

http://www.scinopharm.com/

[Helge V. Keitel]

Vow! I like that picture with the "worm". Is it a railway track for internal transport? What's the name of the largest Biotech company in Taiwan? I'm curious ;)