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Center for Economic Deregulation and Innovation

Promoting National Competitiveness in Taiwan

Council for Economic Planning and Development

Mexico City March 13, 2013

Regina Yeushyang Chyn Deputy Director


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Area 36,191 Km2 Population 23.3 million GDP US$474 billion Agriculture 2% Industry 29% Service 69% Per capita GDP US$20,378 (27th) Exports 308.3 billion (18th) Imports 281.4 (18th)


Average income

Development stage

Driving Force


Shoes Electric fan Bicycle Umbrella Sewing machine Tennis racket Bicycle tire Thermos bottle MSG Bicycle brake Camphor Bicycle chains

Mask ROM Motherboards Notebook, Netbook, desktop PCs Cable CPE Personal navigation devices (PNDs) WLANs Golf heads IC testing, packaging LCD monitors DSL CPE Foundry services Optical disos Glass fiber Servers Electro-deposited copper foil Power wheelchairs & poser scooters ABS Instant noodles

Star Products in 1983 and 2010


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What matters Traditional productive factors Infrastructure Technology Institutions – liberalization, globalization, modernization financial, currency, taxation, trade, foreign

exchange, and doing business

Our Concept of Competitiveness


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• Organizations: ITRI(1973), III (1980) • Advisory group • Development plans: IC, science and technology

development plans to promote energy, IT, materials, automation, optoelectronics, biotech, liver disease prevention, food

• High-tech talent plan: nurturing and recruiting • Promotion zones– Hsin-Chu Science Park (1980)

and other science parks • Enterprises : UMC(1980), TSMC (1986) End of 2012: 750 firms in 3 parks, 245 thousands employees, and 69 billion USD.

Promoting Technology


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Semiconductor • Technology transfer agreement with RCA • Introduction of semiconductor technology • Demo plant of 4-inch wafer • Dispatching engineers to RCA • Creating private companies (UMC, TSMC, etc.)

through tech transfer • OEM, ODM Venture capital cooperation with Japan Developing Formosan Civet coffee

ITRI Cases


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Taskforce within the Cabinet The Taskforce for Raising National Competitiveness set up in 1996.

Division of task macroeconomic environment globalization and enterprises fiscal finance and financial market infrastructure manpower and quality of living technological readiness cross-Straits relations.

Systematic Work on Competitiveness


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• First 4-year action plan (1996-2000) • 119 KPIs and their targets • Work-out plans to achieve the targets • Performance reviewed each quarter • Reference scoreboard - WEF Global Competitiveness

Report on Taiwan and, later, others. • Powerhouse of the economy - To build our base on the

strengths of the private sector, to unleash the creativity and vitality via pushing forward comprehensive reform and national modernization.

• National reinvention from a much broader

Work Plan


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• The task is from the global perspective. • Many yardsticks and authoritative agencies, such as the

IMD, WEF, BERI, World Bank, EIU, Heritage Foundation, etc.

• Different categories of evaluation and ranking, and many factors being subjective.

• Valuable in providing references and perspectives for understanding competitiveness and examining our needs.

• To meet our real needs - Making judgments according to our own needs, and decide on which evaluation categories we shall strive for.

International Benchmarking


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• What does national competitiveness mean? • Increase in national financial might? • A boost in productivity or productive power? • Improvement in infrastructure? • More than just economic issues - Education, public

safety, the quality of life and technical capability. • Higher standard of living and an improvement in our

spiritual culture. • Therefore, two more were added on the basis of

concurrent national conditions: social stability and peace, and cross-Straits relations.

Comprehensiveness


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• The task is continuous. • Not another new slogan or switching plans and policies. • Raising national competitiveness is consistent with past

administrative measures. • And paving the way for and linking with future

development. • Ultimate push of national modernization. • Injecting new meaning into our policies and measures.

Rolling Approach


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• Specific competitiveness indicators as health check-up items.

• Which items are more important and should be given priority for improvement?

• Which areas require more effort? • In which areas our methods are inappropriate or

problematic? • Each government agency finding out more specific and

measurable sub-indicators, or KPIs. • Participation by civil society – Addressing such human

capital quality issues as creativity and emotion management.

Practicability


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• End of the first 4-yr project Objectives achieved in 1999, task ended ahead of schedule.

Outcomes


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• Resumption of priority work in 2004 - The CEPD chairing quarterly inter-ministerial review meetings on competitiveness performance and reported to the Cabinet Group on Economy at each year end.

• The coverage of monitoring indicators was extended to other international comparison reports.

• The Cabinet Office instructed the CEPD to convene the “international benchmarking project group” in 2009.

• Meeting quarterly, evaluating more than 20 international comparison reports and investigating and resolving weaknesses items.

Subsequent Projects


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In 2008 the Cabinet announced the “deregulation and rebuilding” initiative as the core of medium-term policy, in a time when Taiwan's competitiveness ebbing away. The goal is to build a competitiveness platform connecting domestic economic regulations with

international practice and reducing barriers to emerging industries, cross-industry businesses and innovative type of businesses.

on the peaceful development of cross-strait links, deregulation and tax reform, investment and infrastructural building, and clean and efficient governance.

2008 Initiative


IMD WEF Growth competitiveness WEF Global competitiveness


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Thank You

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