The Mobile e-Business Center, in line with the strategies adopted by other large transnational corporations, focuses on Taiwan's strengths in the information-technology and communications industries. But the other facility for which IBM has submitted a proposal, the Life Sciences Center of Excellence, has the ambition of making something out of nothing, of filling the vacuum that currently exists in this sector in Taiwan.
IBM「行動電子商務中心」著眼於台灣的優勢資訊及通信產業，策略和其他大廠差不多，然而另一項申請中的「生物資訊科技研發中心」，卻是企圖從無到有，填補台灣在這個產業領域上的空白。