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Table 2
TSP industrial statistics in 2011
IC
OE
BT
TC
PM
C&P
Others
Total
Number of firms
9
47
39
11
44
3
5
158
Number of employees
16404
36220
1939
947
4684
249
1901
62344
Turnover
(NTD billions)
233.9
301.3
5.5
3.2
31.3
1.5
2.7
579.4
Note BT Biotechnology, C&P Computer & peripherals, IC Integrated circuit
OE Opto-electronics, PM Precision machinery, TC Telecommunications
Source STSPA
at Lujhu, Kaohsiung County. In January 2003, the Southern Taiwan Science Park
Administration (STSPA) was officially formed, under the National Science
Council, to manage the operation of Tainan Science Park (TSP, the expanded
TSIP) and Lujhu Science Park (LSP) and began to provide services to their ten-
ants. Lujhu site was renamed as Kaohsiung Science Park (KSP) in 2004. Because
of the expansion and frequent change of titles, in addition, there is a Tainan
Technology Park established and managed by the Industrial Development Bureau
(IDB) at nearby Tainan City; the science parks in the southern region are very
often confused by the people. In this article, the focus is on the Tainan Science
Park and its surrounding area TSP Special Zone.
Tainan Science Park has covered an area of 1038 ha since 1999. According to
the STSPA statistics of 2011, as shown in Table
2
, the total number of tenant
companies reached 158, with 105 in TSP and 53 KSP, respectively; the total
employees in these companies amounted to a new height of 62,344, with 57,447 in
TSP and 4,897 in KSP; the total turnover of these firms was NTD 579.4 billion
(USD 19.3 billion) which is nearly 10 % lower than the NTD 605.9 billion of the
year 2010, and TSP accounted for NTD 555.4 billion (USD 18.5 billion). From all
of the three variables, opto-electronics is still the largest industrial sector within
the TSP, followed by the semiconductor industry; precision machinery comes
third. Comparing with its predecessor Hsinchu Science Park (HSP), the statistics
show that HSP houses 430 companies with 130,577 employees and a total revenue
of NTD 1,080 billion (USD 34 billion) in 2008; and at its 12th year after estab-
lishment in 1980, HSP registered 148 tenants, 25,148 employees, and the total
revenue amounted to NTD 87 billion (USD 2.8 billion). Although the industrial
categories are not exactly the same as it was planned in the beginning, never-
theless, the burgeoning TSP tenants are often grouped into four major industrial
clusters: opto-electronics, integrated circuits, precision machinery, and biotech-
nology (Figs.
1
,
2
,
3
).
The opto-electronics industry has become the dominant sector in the TSP since
2001, the total number of employees reached 36,220 in 2011, accounting for 61 %
of the total employment in the TSP. It has the most complete production chain
among Taiwan's three TFT-LCD industrial clusters (Fig.
4
), led by the Chimei
Optoelectronics, the second largest producer of TFT-LCD panels in Taiwan and
the fourth in the world (Kung and Chen
2008
). Because of the increasing
importance of photovoltaic technologies in future energy production, this sector is
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