Mainlanders can work for up to six years in R & D institutions, as long as less than 20 % of the personnel are recruited from the mainland. How much of a contribution mainland professionals will make remains to be seen, because they still lag behind their Taiwanese counterparts in terms of cosmopolitanism, creativity, and product development skills.
除了國防役男，政府也應允協助海外及大陸科技人才進入研發中心服務，其中大陸人才員額以不超過研發中心創新前瞻領域研究員總數的百分之二十為原則，停留期限則可長達六年。