Staying close to suppliers Kai Hsiao says that they originally had the R & D center in Singapore. In terms of incentives, degree of concentration of talented people from around the world, internationalization, liberalization, policy stability, transparency, and so on, nobody can beat Singapore. The only problem is that the R & D center was too far from HP's suppliers, who are mainly Taiwanese firms.
蕭國坤表示，原先惠普的產品發展中心設在新加坡，論優惠措施、全球性人才匯聚程度，以及國際化、自由化、政策穩定度及透明度等，新加坡都是上上之選，唯一的缺點就是離以台商為主力的供應商太遠了。