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Table 1 Science parks in Taiwan

Name Year of

establishment

Area(ha) Target industries

Lungtan S.P. 2004 107 OE

Hsinchu S.P. 1980 653 IC, C&P, OE, TC, PM, BT

Northern Taiwan
(1342 ha)

Chubai S.P. 2008 38 BT

Chunan S.P. 2001 123 TC, OE, BT

Tungluo S.P. 2004 350 TC, OE, AA

Ilan S.P. 2009 71 TC, OE

Houli S.P. 2006 255 IC

Taichung S.P. 2003 413 IC, TC, OE, PM, AA

Central Taiwan
(1657 ha)

Huwei S.P. 2004 97 OE, LCD

Erlin B.P. Planning 631 BT, OE, TC

Higher Research S.P. Planning 261 -

Southern Taiwan
(1613 ha)

Tainan S.P. 1996 1,043 OE, BT, IC

Kaohsiung S.P. 2001 570 OE, TC, BT, MD

Total 4,613
Note BT Biotechnology, C&P Computer and peripherals, LCD TFT-LCD, Med Medicine, OE
Opto-electronics, PM Precision machinery, TC Telecommunications, IC Integrated circuit, AA
Aeronautics and astronautics
Source HSPA, CTSPA

the 1990s. Currently there are 11 science parks in operation and two sites in
planning stage as of year 2011 (Table 1 ).
Tainan Science Park was established in 1996 as the second science park in
Taiwan, originally titled as ''Tainan Science-Based Industrial Park'' (TSIP). The
designated site was a flat and low land of 638 ha (2,565 ac) in the middle of
Taiwan's agricultural heartland, located across the border of three rural town-
ships—Hsinshih, Shanhua, Anding of Tainan County; these three nearby major
settlements altogether housed around 100,000 residents in the mid-1990s. At a
walking distance, there is a renowned international research institution—Asian
Vegetable Research and Development Centre. However, it locates some 12 km
from Tainan, the nearest major city and National Cheng Kung University (NCKU),
the key higher education institution in Southern Taiwan. From the very beginning,
there had been doubts of its possibility to succeed. And indeed, it even survived
the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis and gained substantial growth amidst the eco-
nomically pessimistic period of the late 1990s.
Because of the fast industrial growth and the leasing system, by early 1999,
only 70 ha of planned industrial area was left. In December 1999, the Ministry of
the Interior approved the ''Plan of the TSIP Special Zone'' which embraces the
idea of building a science city of 3,299 ha (8,152 ac) around the original TSIP
with another 400 ha (988 ac) adjacent land for future industrial expansion of TSIP.
In June 2001, another expansion site of 570 ha (1,409 ac) for TSIP was approved