过去三十年间,台湾的经济取得了突飞猛进的发展,但是它的研究开发活动相对说来还是比较落后的。随着高技术时代的到来,台湾当局开始产生了一种发展科学技术的紧迫感。许多人已经认识到,台湾能否继续保持其经济增长的势头,在很大程度上将取决于它是否能在高科技研究开发的激烈竞争中取得成功。台湾当局开始重视科学技术的迹象之一是科学技术在政府最高层中的地位已有显著提高。经过1987年的政府改组以后,负责科技政策和科技管理工作的部门——研究开发及 Over the past three decades, Taiwan's economy has made rapid progress, but its research and development activities are still relatively backward. With the advent of a high-tech era, the Taiwan authorities began to create a sense of urgency in science and technology development. Many people have come to realize that Taiwan's ability to sustain its economic growth will largely depend on whether it can succeed in the fierce competition in high-tech research and development. One of the signs that the Taiwan authorities have begun to attach importance to science and technology is that science and technology have risen significantly in the top level of the government. After the reorganization of the government in 1987, the department in charge of science and technology policy and technology management - research and development and