Taiwan's medium and small enterprises are many, yet with few personnel and not a lot of money behind them they lack the power to under take research and development for themselves. Thus the government could only use the strength of the state to establish the ITRI, hoping that it would become the common backup and technical support unit for all manufacturing industry.
台灣中小企業多，每家企業人少錢少，自己無力做研發，因此政府才會以國家的力量成立工研院，希望成為產業共有共用的後勤技術支援單位。