During the Aspire Academy opening ceremony, academy president Stan Shih, chairman of the Acer Group, remarked that he hopes to introduce management models from Europe and America and mesh them with the unique attributes of Taiwanese industry to enhance the globalization of Asian business. Shih noted that through the sharing of experiences, emerging businesses might save themselves a lot of groping in the dark.
擔任標竿學院校長的宏集團董事長施振榮在典禮上說，希望能引進歐美管理模式，結合台灣企業特性，提昇亞洲企業國際化水準；而透過經驗傳授，也可以讓新興企業減少摸索過程。