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Nature 407, 417-426 (21 September 2000) | doi:10.1038/35030326

Open Innovation Challenges

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regional insight Taiwan backs experience in quest for biotech success

David Swinbanks1 & David Cyranoski1

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In under 30 years the tiny island of Taiwan has gone from agricultural backwater to global electronics giant. Now it is turning its attention to biotechnology. But can Taiwan sustain the pace of development?

The rise of Taiwan over the past two decades has been meteoric. In the 1960s, it was a poor developing economy with no significant research infrastructure and impoverished universities.