Although the various steps taken by the Dutch were to benefit the mother country's colonial policy, they marked the beginning of modernization in Taiwan.
引進漢人墾殖，開發農業，甚至在番社佈道、教原住民羅馬拼音字等，種種措施，固然都可以算是殖民帝國為了本身利益所作，但在此後的台灣開發史上，畢竟得到了「荷人啟之」的歷史定位。