TSMA Yearbook 2018

126 2018 Yearbook • The government should encourage domestic talents to get involved in the 4.0 field, imitating the approach of labor and robot co-work and labor force upgrading programs conducted in Germany and Japan, and further develop cross-domain information technology talents. Then government should continue to propel schools and training units to educate and train machinery/electronics/communication/information integrated talents. • The government should sponsor the youth to take foreign internships and should learn from Korea to improve the living and working conditions as well as immigration and visa regulations (7) so as to attract the foreign talents. Industrial 4.0 related foreign talents could take priority. • In the long run, the government needs to get on system planning, educate high-level research talents and advanced manufacturing talents in the field of Productivity 4.0, and reinforce the links among industries, the government and academics (8). There should be a review of the labor force shortage, so as to set vocational standards, training courses and the certificate system. d. The government needs to make good use of policy resources, and assist enterprises to solve the funding problem. • In Taiwan, small-and-medium enterprises are the majority and their resources are limited. In the past of industrial transformation, the government played a key role. Nevertheless, there is less and less resources to help enterprises (9). The ratio of R&D budge to GDP is much lower than that of Japan and Korea (10). Budget source is indeed one of the major problems. 1.From 2004 to 2012, the national R&D funds grew simultaneously with technology budget. However, the national R&D fund grew faster than technology budge which makes government technology budget weight in the national R&D fund decline from 25-26%. Especially in 2010, the Statute for Industrial Innovation was implemented, the ratio dropped dramatically to 22%. It indicates the R&D momentum from the government declines. 2.2017 Report publicized by Department of Statistics, Ministry of the Economic Affairs, indicates that the R&D budget vis-à-vis GDP over the past decade grows at 6.2% on average. It is lower than the neighboring Japan (6.6%), Korea (8.2%) and China (7.0%).