In the 1970's, the government strongly promoted industrial transformation, and a series of research institutes (including the Industrial Technology Research Institute [ITRI], and the Chungshan Institute of Technology) were set up. These had a great demand for overseas technical talent, and the numbers returning increased.
至六十年代，政府力促工業轉型，工研院、中山研究院、生物技術開發中心等研究機構相繼成立，對海外科技人才需求量擴大，回來的人數因此增加。這一個十年，回台學人人數突破五千。