Taking the number of patents granted in a given year as an indicator of technological innovation, Wu stresses that Taiwan filed more than 6,500 patents applications in the US last year, a figure which trailed only Japan and Germany.
吳作樂強調，以科技創新指標──專利權的數量評估，去年台灣向美國登記申請的專利數達到六千五百多件，僅次於日本和德國，而且台灣平均每萬人口的專利數已和日本不相上下，如果連在美華人也計入的話，絕對贏過日本。