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3 Development of Green Industries
The concept of ''green industry'' did not exist in the original TSP industrial
planning. There are three target industries in the original TSIP proposal: micro-
electronics and precision machinery, semiconductor, and agricultural biotechnol-
ogy industries. They were expected to be geographically co-located in three
specialized zones (National Science Council
1996
). A review of the sub-industries
within the target industrial clusters will find that the central idea was to develop a
semiconductor industrial cluster and its supportive precision machinery industries,
and to utilize the agricultural base of the southern region to develop related bio-
technology industries (Tables
3
,
4
).
Without the policy guidance, the development of ''green industries'' in the TSP
may be regarded as a process and the result that started from the entrepreneurial
insight of private investors. This entrepreneurship first came from those who saw the
new industrial advantages, not necessarily thought as ''green,'' from the existing
industrial clusters, including opto-electronics, integrated circuits, and precision
machinery. Motech was established at TSP in 1999 to catch the newly rising solar
energy industrial opportunities in the global market, and became the first silicon
solar cell producer in Taiwan in the next year. While most of the other TSP opto-
electronic tenants were competing in the TFT-LCD display-related R&D and pro-
duction investment, it gradually expanded into a vertically integrated firm. It pro-
duced 272 MV of crystalline silicon solar cells in 2008, ranked as the eighth solar
cell maker in the world. Other major players in the industry include Delta Elec-
tronics which expanded into the field of power management solutions from its
already wide-ranging electronics product line and invested a new branch in the TSP.
From the industrial policy aspect, the term ''green industry'' was formally used
in the 2007 MOEA policy program ''2015 Economic Development Prospect.''
Three industries were: renewable energy, energy saving, and cleaner production.
Table 3 Industrial clusters featured in TSIP 1996 plan
Target industrial cluster
Target sub-industry
Microelectronics and precision machinery
zone
Wireless communication
Precision machinery
Medical instrument and materials
Semiconductor equipment
Computers and peripherals
Micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS)
industries
Semiconductor zone
Microwave communication semiconductor
Power electronics
Special-purpose integrated circuit industries
Agricultural biotechnology zone
Flowers and ornamental plants
Biopesticide
Livestock vaccine
Aquaculture industries
Source National Science Council (
1996
)
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